This month's National People's Congress in Beijing has
installed a strong, reformist new Government led by Zhu Rongji which has outlined a series of highly ambitious targets for domestic reform, such as the wholesale restructuring of China's State Owned Enterprises and the overhaul of China's financial system; second, both within the Asian region and more widely, China has recently displayed a more assertive and more responsible role in international affairs, not least through a series of high profile Summits in the last year with the United States (US), Russia and Japan; third, the Asian financial crisis has exposed serious weaknesses
...[+++] in neighbouring economies, underlining the need for China to guard against similar problems itself.
L'Assemblée populaire nationale, qui s'est tenue ce mois-ci à Beijing, a mis en place un nouveau gouvernement fort et réformiste, dirigé par Zhu Rongi, qui s'est fixé toute une série d'objectifs très ambitieux de réformes intérieures telles que la restructuration globale des entreprises publiques et la refonte du système financier chinois; deuxièmement,
