{"id":12385,"date":"2007-04-21T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T01:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/21\/wen-reveals-himself-as-a-new-kind-of-chinese-leader-howard-w-french\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T01:09:05","slug":"wen-reveals-himself-as-a-new-kind-of-chinese-leader-howard-w-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/wen-reveals-himself-as-a-new-kind-of-chinese-leader-howard-w-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Wen reveals himself as a new kind of Chinese leader &#8211; Howard W. 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But in his four years in office, Wen has emerged as a compassionate and nimble public figure: in short, a new kind of Chinese leader who comes across as a real human being and is more comfortable ad-libbing where others hew to the script in a slumber-inducing manner.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Wen, too, mostly sticks closely to the script &#8211; a fact that he himself revealed in an unusually candid discussion of his preparation for the Japan trip. &#8220;This is the most important task since I took office,&#8221; he told an audience of Chinese residents in Japan. &#8220;I did a lot of preparation. Every sentence is written by myself, and I did all the research work myself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/04\/19\/asia\/letter.php\" target=\"_blank\">[Full Text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From International Herald Tribune: Wen, like an unusually large number of Chinese leaders, has an engineering background. 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