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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Communist Party (1989–2002) and president (1993–2003).
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Just like I call Jiang Zemin and apologized for bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo War.
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Just like I call Jiang Zemin and apologized for bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo War.
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Just like I call Jiang Zemin and apologized for bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo War.
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Just like I call Jiang Zemin and apologized for bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo War.
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Also, you've got a little bit of a problem with him not having the experience in foreign policy that his father did, so he couldn't pick up the phone, like his father could have, call Jiang Zemin and try to work something out personally.
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And the fact is that there has been a strategic ambiguity, but the person who destroyed the strategic ambiguity was President Clinton, when he went to China and called Jiang Zemin and the Chinese his strategic partner, and he destroyed the delicate balance of ambiguity which is causing many of these problems now, which is again an example of the fecklessness of the Clinton foreign policy.
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Q Do you say the President has been trying to communicate, call Jiang Zemin, but has been unsuccessful?
Press Gaggle By Joe Lockhart ITY National Archives 1999
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And of course Hu himself, like Jiang Zemin, was chosen by Deng.
Hu Jintao's visit: the story the media missed | Dean Baker 2011
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When Jiang Zemin paid a state visit to the U.S. in 1997, his mission was to attract foreign investment and to repair the damage done to China's image in the West by the military crackdown on protesters at Tiananmen Square eight years earlier.
Beijing Hails Start of a New Era Jeremy Page 2011
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Chinese censors are apparently blocking online discussion of former president Jiang Zemin, whose absence from a key Communist Party event in Beijing has sparked speculation that he is seriously ill.
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