wen jiabao

www.wantchinatimes.com — Premier Wen Jiabao, who has a reputation as a progressive in the Chinese Communist Party, this week called for further political reform in China. He specifically mentioned judicial independence and more local elections as areas that could be expanded.

blogs.forbes.com — "We will actively boost consumer demand," said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the National People's Congress on Saturday. "We will continue to increase government spending used to help expand consumption..." And that’s exactly what everyone—Chinese consumers, Washington’s trade officials, and American marketers—wanted to hear.

www.bbc.co.uk — The UK prime minister, who is accompanied by four cabinet ministers and 43 business leaders, called the trip a "vitally important trade mission", but pressure is mounting on Mr Cameron to raise the issue of China's human rights record.

blogs.wsj.com — An official news blackout in China surrounding Premier Wen Jiabao’s interview over the weekend with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria hasn’t kept it from becoming one of the hottest topics on the Chinese Internet.

chinadigitaltimes.net — China Media Project partially translates a, “lengthy, passionate and strongly-worded discussion of China’s history, current leadership and political reform” by investigative reporter Zhai Minglei. The essay has since been purged from the Chinese Internet: