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To: ---------- who wrote (1616)	5/16/1998 4:09:00 AM
From: Tom	Respond to of 2951

Excellent. I like it. Hope the powers that be don't consider it direct marketing. Speaking of Fortune magazine, there was an article in Fortune a couple of years back that related the story of an American businessman who visited Beijing in an effort to begin a non-profit program to help those afflicted with...cerebral palsy I believe it was. The gentleman had a daughter w/ CP and a much younger but close relative of Deng was also handicapped. The article showed a picture of the American and Deng's nephew, it may have been, at a dinner meeting w/ a host of others. Both the men were laughing like crazy. I wish I could find that picture again. Touching on Mr. Zhu once again, if I may. There remains no doubt that the communist party is Zhu's bread 'n' butter. And no matter how much we hope for him, his peers and his staff to achieve, it remains that Zhu has come up through the Party system and will play the Party line. What I'm attempting to say is that I would not be shocked, if push ever came to shove, that Zhu would follow that Party line. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a quote from what the FEER says is a fairly popular read in some circles around Beijing. The name of the work is Fire and Ice. It's author, young Mr. Yu Jie, is a student at Beijing U. (Don't know that the quotes appear in FEER's internet edition.) "From time immemorial, China has had people who obey, and people who are thugs, but China has never had citizens. Its people are like turtles who shrink into their shells, or like Li Kui wielding his axe to kill, kill, kill. That's why China has progressed so little...."