SHI, Qiao <br/><br/>
Document  :  Qiao Shi on China's long march to the rule of law 

 - Malden, MA :  Blackwell Publishers,  Fall 2007 
<br/><br/> The following document is excerpted from an interview by NPQ editor Nathan Gardels with QIAO SHI at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 1997. At the time Qiao, China's former intelligence chief, was head of the National People's Congress and the third-ranking member of the Politiburo Standing Committee. Before he was retired in a power struggle with Li Peng and Jiang Zemin, Qiao was China's leading official proponent of strengthening the rule of law