China's Politics And Economy In 1999: Coping With Crises

What the Jiang Zemin leadership faced in 1999 can be characterized by a century-old Chinese saying, neiyou waihuan (literally, “internal disturbance and external threat”). What with the worst growth record in a decade, the Falun Gong sect''s siege of Zhongnanhai, Nato''s bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, and Lee Teng-hui''s new “two-state” theory, the Chinese leadership was under treme...