Feng Liang wrote on Asia Times Online: “After Chinese incumbent president Hu Jintao replaced his predecessor Jiang Zemin as the country’s new commander-in-chief, political observers say China’s power shift has finally been completed. Since the Communist Party’s decisive meeting last month, the fourth-generation of leadership – with moderate reformist Hu as the paramount leader – now takes full control in the Middle Kingdom. Hu is now party chief, the nation’s president and supreme military chief. The allies of his rival Jiang may not have been routed, but they are subdued, and in some cases the tables are being turned against them. ”
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