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Mon 02 Feb 2009Wen gives short shrift to those who blame fiscal crisis on China
In a rare interview, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, says his country’s focus will be on its own recovery, write Lionel Barber, Geoff Dyer, James Kyngeand Lifen Zhang
WEN JIABAO is on the fifth leg of what he calls his “Journey of Confidence” in Europe and he has been up since before dawn jogging in London’s Hyde Park. But the 67-year-old Chinese premier looks sprightly and dapper as he raises his index finger, looks his interviewers in the eye and says: “I am ready to be open and sincere.”
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