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BEIJING. Feb 25: China's President Jiang Zemin has wasted no time since the death last week of his mentor Deng Xiaoping to tell the 1.2 billion Chinese over whom he now wields sway that he is in charge, reports Reuter.
In his first public remarks after Deng died on Wednesday at 92. Jiang vowed not to swerve from the policies of the man China hails as the architect of its sweeping reforms, and said he would outdo those achievements.
The death of Deng, the supreme leader of China for the last 18 years, paves the way for his anointed heir Jiang to assume the reins of power after seven years of waiting in the wings for his patron to pass away.
President and Communist Party chief Jiang, who takes full power with Deng's death, is a technocrat and career Communist with a sure grasp of
Chinese politics but a personal history that has little In common with his revolutionary predecessors.
Jiang, who combines the largely symbolic title of president with the really powerful roles of Communist Party gen eral secretary and chairman of the Central Military Commission. was widely seen as a bland compromise candidate when he shot to power from relative obscurity in 1989.
The former tractor factory manager has fought to emerge from the shadow of patriarch Deng.
Jiang was dismissed at first by foreign analysts as a powerless transitional figure whose rule would end with Dengs death. But he has in recent years promoted allies and dominated the middle ground on policy to bolster his position as the favoured successor.
He has shown himself an as-
tute politician, edging his waj^. through a minefield of enemies and rivals to consolidate a, grip on power that appeared'unshakable as Deng’s influence waned.
It was unclear whether his vow to do better would be regarded as a disrespectful show of arrogance and self-assurance so soon after Deng's passing from the scene.
He was appointed party chief after Zhao Ziyang. a reformist closely associated with Deng, was toppled by hardliners who accused him of supporting the democracy movement that swept China until crushed by the army in Beijing on June 4, 1989.
Unlike Deng or his predecessor chairman Mao Zedong, Jiang has no experience of war or the military, which impairs his standing with China's three million-strong army.