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WashingtonPost, "New China, Old Threat": CHINA'S NEW Communist leadership would like to be seen as pragmatic, modernizing and cooperatively engaged with the world, and to some extent, it has succeeded in earning this reputation in its first months. Outsiders have been impressed with its open handling of the SARS health crisis, its willingness to join a multilateral effort to curb North Korea's nuclear program and its success in sustaining explosive economic growth that has helped prop up a sluggish global economy. In an interview with The Post last week, Premier Wen Jiabao, who will soon become the first senior Chinese official to visit the United States since Hu Jintao took over as president, sketched a progressive, if cautious, political agenda, pledging to develop democracy and the rule of law. "We should make sure that government is placed under the supervision of the people," he said.

Is that the media interviewed Mr. Wen last week reported in China's media?