10A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2002
China's next leader re-elected to country's Central Committee
The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — The man expected to become China's next leader is the only top politician reelected to the Communist Party's Central Committee, the government announced today — the most concrete sign yet of his ascent.
The official Xinhua News Agency said current President Jiang Zemin was not on the list, indicating his expected retirement from a formal party role.
"Ijang Zemin, the core of the third-generation leadership of the Communist Party of China, and five of his colleagues in the party's top decision-making body, are not on a new Central Committee of the CPC elected here this morning." Xinhua said.
It specifically identified Hu as "the only member" of the last party congress' Standing Committee to be re-elected. The Standing Committee is the inner sanctum of party leadership and, by extension, the leadership of China.
Jiang, 76, general secretary of the Communist Party since he
replaced Zhao Ziyang in a 1989 purge after the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, will remain president until March. But the party position is the wellspring of his power, and his departure from it makes his retirement as president certain.
The moves, which most expect to launch a younger generation of leaders to shepherd China through a period of dizzying economic change, come at the end of the congress, the once-in-five-years meeting of the party that has ruled China since its insurgents took the mainland in 1949.
Hu, 59, was designated as Jiang's heir apparent by the late senior leader Deng Xiaooping. His ascent has been widely expected, though little is known about him. He has taken on a higher profile in recent months and traveled to the United States in the spring, a signal that he was being readied to take the reins of power.
Delegates to the party's weeklong 16th National Congress also are expected to amend its constitution to formally endorse Jiang's invitation for entrepreneurs to join—an effort to keep the party
in control of a fast-changing China.
The leadership change appears to be the first orderly transfer of power in the history of communist China. Order, always an obsession of the ruling communists, has taken on new economic importance as the country opens to foreign investment as part of its "socialist market economy."
China's rulers say they want to convey a sense of calm so that money from abroad will keep pouring in, raising living standards and keeping people happy or at least unwilling to oppose party rule.
While Jiang is said to be preparing to give up his formal posts, he is also believed to have shepherded proteges onto the party's next ruling body and into other high posts in order to retain influence over a new government.
through the list of Central Committee members was not immediately available Friday, it will hold clues as to which of China's senior leaders have come out ahead and which are being shown the door.
Quick pass
Tianna Dunnaway, Sixth grader at Cordley Elementary, practices passing the ball during Kappa Alpha Psi's Achievement Basketball Camp. The fraternity sponsored the event yesterday at Cordley, 1837 Vermont St.
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U.S., India set up group to boost high technology trading
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI. India (AP) The United States and India agreed yesterday to increase trade of high-tech goods including nuclear and military equipment, a senior U.S. official said.
The agreement comes after months of improved trade ties between the two countries since
ne Sept. 11 attacks. After the attacks, President Bush withdrew sanctions on India and Pakistan to help the U.S. war on terrorism.
After two days of meetings with Indian officials, Under Secretary of Commerce Kenneth I. Juster said increased high-technology trade would reflect their closer ties and common strategic interest
India and the United States
also agreed to create the India-U.S. High Technology Cooperation Group, which will identify ways to increase trade in dual-use goods and technologies. It is first scheduled to meet early next year.
"We discussed cooperative steps in the civilian space and nuclear sectors. We are takings steps to case legal and obligatory regulations on high technology
trade in these areas," Juster said.
After India, and then Pakistan, conducted nuclear weapons tests in 1998, the United States suspended military contacts and banned all sales of dual-purpose equipment and technology.
Under President Bush's order last year, the export policy reverted to previous rules that demand exports be reviewed on a
The 1998 sanctions banned the United States from providing dual-use technology to about 200 Indian companies and state entities.
That number dropped sharply after Sept. 11, and Juster told journalists Wednesday that most of the remaining companies had been taken off the list.
Juster held talks with Defense
Minister George Fernandes National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra and addressed business leaders of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
He said the U.S. delegation discussed obstacles to increased trade, including tariff barriers and ways of lowering them to make American technologies more attractive to Indian companies.
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