Posted on 07/23/2002 5:08:27 PM PDT by maui_hawaii
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Much of the delicate relationship between the army and the Communist Party leadership can be seen from a discussion last week between Vice-President Hu Jintao and a group of demobilized soldiers.
While touring southwestern Yunnan Province, Hu found time to reassure the decommissioned rank and file that Beijing would find them employment and take care of their families.
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There is a strong risk of fracturing the Party into many fragments, and they all know it.
Pretty soon, they will all be called 'dissidents', just like Taiwan, or Falun Gong.
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