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...Jiang Zemin, China’s former president who led efforts to stabilise the world’s most populous country in the decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre, has died aged 96....
...The parliament also confirmed Zhao Leji, a close ally of Xi, as its new chair....
...He has already uprooted the previously powerful networks aligned with predecessors Hu Jintao and the late Jiang Zemin....
...In late 2021, Zhao Lijian, the foreign ministry spokesman, called the observance of the “One China” principle the “political foundation for the stable development of Chinese-US relations”....
...“Of course, in this case, Zhao Kezhi’s help would be crucial,” said Shih....
...The first was that from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao in 2002, and from Hu to Xi in 2012....
...Zhao Xiaoou Aberdeen, UK...
...Deng was relegated to equal status with other former leaders of the reform period, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao....
...He has served as a valued adviser to Mr Xi on international trips, continuing a role he played for former leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao....
...Hu Jintao was designated as Jiang Zemin’s likely successor in 1992....
...“Jiang Zemin also came, though there is no photograph of him here. This is a front-line base for China’s resources,” Mr Li said proudly....
...asks Zhao Chu, a political analyst and columnist....
...Former president Jiang Zemin and premiers Wen Jiabao and Zhu Rongji have children or grandchildren who have worked for foreign investment banks or their mainland joint ventures....
...Margaret Ren, the daughter-in-law of former party chief Zhao Ziyang, is chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in China, and was earlier at Bear Stearns, Citigroup and BNP Paribas....
...Jiang Zemin was not Deng’s first choice, but he gave him his blessing as the “core” of the third generation of leaders....
...Jiang Zemin, the 86-year-old former president who delivered his final party congress report 10 years ago, entered the congress hall with Mr Hu and took a seat at centre stage facing the more than 2,300 delegates...
...Additional reporting by Zhao Tianqi...
...Zhao remained under house arrest for 16 years until his death in 2005....
...Additional reporting by Leslie Hook and Zhao Xue in Beijing...
...Mr Zhao spent the remainder of his life under house arrest....
...Vogel tells this story authoritatively, culminating in Deng’s journey to the south in 1992 to give heart to the reformers and embolden his successor, Jiang Zemin....
...afterwards, China was ruled by men directly involved in the decision to send in the tanks, such as Li Peng, the former premier, and others elevated to their positions as a result of the turmoil, including Jiang Zemin...
...Zhao admits marketing will have to be improved if a new theatre-going public is to be encouraged....
...Mr Zhao was detained in 2004 after a New York Times story correctly forecast the retirement of China’s former president Jiang Zemin, but was on Friday convicted of an entirely separate charge relating to...
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