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The idea of LLM Wiki applied to a year of the Economist. Have an LLM keep a wiki up-to-date about companies, people & countries while reading through all articles of the economist from Q2 2025 until Q2 2026.

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Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin was a former president of China who led the country from 1989 to 2002. He retained the military chairmanship after giving up his other roles, demonstrating that a leader could cling to the most powerful position even after a formal handover—a precedent that Xi Jinping later exploited when abolishing presidential term limits.

He died in 2022 and, as befits a leader of the Communist Party described by official media as a "thoroughgoing materialist", was cremated and had his ashes scattered into the ocean off Shanghai. The city of Shanghai has since cited his example in promoting "sea burials" to its residents.

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