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Death watch with Jiang Zemin

Death watch with Jiang Zemin

Chinese leader feeds lambs, poses with journalists for photos

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Michael J Field
Nov 30, 2022
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Death watch with Jiang Zemin
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Somewhere in China’s security network sits a photo of President Jiang Zemin and me.  I’ve never seen it, but now that Jiang has finally died, aged 96,  I feel deep in the bones that I should be filing a story on it all. People might not know. This will have to do.

I was with Agence France-Presse in 1999 and Auckland was hosting the APEC leaders summit. N…

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