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Comprehensive news report from abroad -- The new Chinese leadership has been established. The leaders who have been selected to the highest decision-making organ, the Politburo Standing Committee, are Hu Jintao, Wu Bang'guo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan. Their administrative posts are as follows: Hu Jintao, president of China; Wu Bang'guo, president of the National People's Congress, Wen Jiabao, premier; Jia Qinglin, president of the C.P.P.C.C (Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference).
Jiang Zemin continues in the position of president of the Military Commission of the Central Committee, showing he obviously wants to cling onto power and is afraid of losing it. What is he afraid of? Mainly two things: first, he is afraid of his family's corruption being examined and his family punished; secondly, he is afraid that Falun Gong will be vindicated and he will be punished for the bloody debt he owes for the persecution.
Jiang Zemin's son Jiang Mianheng did not get into the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; in fact, he was not even elected as a back-up committee member.
The Washington Post editorial for October 14 is entitled, "Mr. Jiang's Bad Idea." It begins, "China's Communist leadership has spent the past few days bombarding the country's long-suffering population, and anyone in the outside world who will listen, with skull-numbing speeches about the supposed philosophical breakthrough of President Jiang Zemin." "Three Represents' policy is not particularly philosophical or hard to explain: It pragmatically proposes that the Communist Party preserve its dictatorship by co-opting the business elite that increasingly drives the country's economy."
The end of the editorial states, "So far this seems to be working reasonably well: Chinese growth remains high, foreign investment is pouring in [...] Yet the leadership still feels insecure enough to round up dissidents of all kinds and ship them out of Beijing before staging its congress. Signs of potentially serious economic problems lie just below the surface..." "...Yet history -- including that of Taiwan -- suggests that Mr. Jiang's authoritarian strategy is even less likely to succeed."
