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Byline: Jonathan Ansfield, William Underhill, Karen MacGregor, Stryker McGuire, Michael Hastings, Karen Breslau, Carla Power, Mac Margolis, Joe Cochrane, Eve Conant
Will Wen Be China's Next Big Fall Guy?
By the tightly scripted standards of China's Communist Party, Wen Jiabao's first big moment as prime minister came off as touchingly real. As he made televised hospital rounds during the SARS crisis in 2003, his eyes glistened with tears. For a party needing a popular figure--minus a Mao or Deng--a poster boy emerged in the diminutive, poetry-loving Wen. "Softness is a plus for him," says Zheng Yongnian, a Singapore-based China watcher. "It's enabled ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Periscope: The Leaders to Watch in 2005; On the Horizon: The turmoil...