News China Re-Elects President Hu Jintao (Time.com) "China's legislature has re-elected President Hu Jintao to a second term five-year term. Hu was also re-appointed as head of China's military commission." 03-08 Papers China and Amnesty International Report (BBC News) Summarizes an Amnesty International report that China has executed more people in a three month period than the rest of the countries of the world have executed in three years. 6-01 China's Relationship With the United States (PBS - Frontline) Discusses the delicate political and economic relationship between China and the USA, with a special emphasis on the role of Taiwan. The discussion is called "Dangerous Straits." 10-01 China's Top Nine Leaders (CNN) "A highlight of the first session of the new Communist Party Central Committee held on Friday was to pick the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China's supreme ruling council." History of Sino-Japanese Conflict (Guardian Observer) "August 1894: Start of the first Sino-Japanese War. This one-sided conflict was effectively ended when the Chinese northern fleet was destroyed off the mouth of the Yalu river. China was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895, when it ceded Taiwan and other territory to Japan and allowed Korea to become a Japanese protectorate." 4-05 Jintao New President of China (CBS News) "Hu Jintao was selected Saturday to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of a fast-changing China, the last major step in a sweeping transition to a younger generation of leaders that has been years in the making." 3-03 New Leaders for China (CNN) "Confirming long-standing speculation, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and five other senior leaders are stepping down from their posts in the ruling Communist Party, state media has reported." "The move signals the start of a carefully regimented transfer of power to a new, so-called 'fourth generation' of Chinese leaders as the week-long Congress of the Chinese Communist Party draws to a close in Beijing." 11-02 New Leaders for China (CNN) "Confirming long-standing speculation, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and five other senior leaders are stepping down from their posts in the ruling Communist Party, state media has reported." "The move signals the start of a carefully regimented transfer of power to a new, so-called 'fourth generation' of Chinese leaders as the week-long Congress of the Chinese Communist Party draws to a close in Beijing." 11-14-02 Zemin, Jiang - Profile (BBC News) Provides a biographical profile of the leader of China. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 6-01 Ziyang, Zhao - Former Premier of China (Bloomberg.com) "Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party leader ousted for sympathizing with student activists during the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square, died in a Beijing hospital at age 85." 1-05 Ziyang, Zhao - Former Premier of China (USA Today) "Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese Communist Party leader who helped pioneer reforms that launched China's economic boom but was ousted after the 1989 Tiananmen Square prodemocracy protests, died Monday at a Beijing hospital. He was 85." "During the Tiananmen protests, Zhao called for compromise and expressed sympathy for some of the student's demands." 1-05

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