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Then Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left, and then Chinese President Jiang Zemin hug each other after a joint press conference in Beijing on Nov. 10, 1997. Greg Baker/AP Photo
With the island dispute in the South China Sea heating up, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ought to explain to the Chinese people why former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin gave away swaths of land 47 times the size of Taiwan to Russia and other neighboring countries—without ever being challenged.
Wang Youqun holds a doctorate in law from the Renmin University of China. He previously worked as a copywriter for Wei Jianxing (1931–2015), a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, from 1997 to 2002.
