But following President Hu Jintao's October 2007 speech to the 17th Communist Party congress, in which he said China must "enhance culture as part of the soft power of our country," the program grew rapidly in scope and ambition.
In the months ahead of the party congress, in which the CPC set government agenda for the next five years, an Internet crackdown was carried out.
The election produced the third consecutive Congress in which no party has an overall majority.
They also face a Congress in which there is no real coalition that represents Trump's ideology.
In the 30th Congress, in which Abraham Lincoln served as a congressman, 74% of the members were lawyers.
Escobar had recently mounted a campaign for Congress, in which he spent freely in Medellín's poorer neighborhoods.
And can a Congress in which each party narrowly controls one house effectively discharge its constitutional duties?
Guardedly, we await the next atrocity and the deliberations of a Congress in which we have little confidence.
President Wilson's address to Congress in which he spelled out the fourteen points is in the 1918 FRUS, supp. 1, v. 1. p12 (points are on page 15).
"You have a Congress in which there is a very strong element that is anti-intemationalist, unilateralist, even isolationist-very xenophobic...and, I think, very ignorant," he said.
He then sent a customs reform bill to Congress, in which the SRI would absorb the functions of the Ecuadorian Customs Corporation.
