A revitalized Jiang Zemin wants a general in the Politburo Standing Committee

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A new factor has been injected into factional intrigue within the Chinese Communist Party.

stillkickin — Jiang Zemin, 85, is said to be in good enough health to have a say at China's 18th Party Congress.

Thanks to the wonders of Chinese geriatric medicine, the health of 85-year-old ex-president Jiang Zemin and head of the powerful Shanghai Faction has improved — and he is determined to have a say in personnel arrangements at the 18th Party Congress.

The latest proposal by Jiang, who was chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 1989 to 2004, was that a senior general should be inducted into the nine-member CCP Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), China’s highest ruling council, to be formed at the 18th Congress.

The last time that a general sat on the PBSC was during from 1992 to 1997, when Adm. Liu Huaqing served in this inner sanctum of power on the recommendation of patriarch Deng Xiaoping. Liu died in 2011.

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A revitalized Jiang Zemin wants a general in the Politburo Standing Committee added by World Tribune on March 20, 2012
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