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Article: Power games.(Li Peng heading National People's Congress after two terms as China's prime minister)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 21, 1998
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BEIJING
THE Chinese appear to be making an effort to prevent the rise of another figure as dominant as Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong were in their day. So Li Peng, who has served the maximum of two five-year terms as prime minister, was out, and no messing. Well, not out in the cold entirely. Mr Li now slides over to head the National People's Congress, China's parliament, as chairman of its standing committee.
However, in another sign of the times, the congress, meeting this month in Beijing for its annual two-week session, showed some misgivings about Mr Li. He is disliked as a hardliner, and shares the blame among dissidents for the suppression of the ...