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(National Times, 30 Oct) - China's incoming president, Xi Jinping, will take power formally in three weeks, yet he's given no public hint of his plans. But he gave an intriguing glimpse to the Westerner he's spent more time with than any other. After a total of 10 days together across a year or so, Xi left the US Vice-President,... 

(Oct 27) - A CENTURY ago China tried its first experiment with representative government, after millennia of imperial rule. The first president, Sun Yat-sen, soon stepped down. His successor, Yuan Shikai, was a mustachioed military man admired in the West as a progressive conservative. He even asked the American government... 

The Vancouver Sun- OCTOBER 23, 2012 For all those China Watchers examining tea leaves for some sign of what sort of Communist Party leader and national president Xi Jinping will be, a column in Monday’s edition of the magazine Study Times is looming large. The article argues that in the pursuit of political reform, China...