Recent anecdotes and rumors suggest there is mounting anger within the Communist Party over the Hu-Wen administration's failure to uphold its mandate — handed down indirectly from Deng Xiaoping — to rebalance the economy away from overreliance on exports and investment and toward domestic consumption and greater equity between China's diverse regions. Certainly, when the Fourth Generation leaders assumed power in 2002, they did not intend to leave so many fundamental problems unfixed. Nor could they have anticipated the ways in which 9/11, two U.S.-led wars in the Middle East and financial crises in the United States and Europe would fundamentally alter the international system and China's place in it. The View From 2002 In 2002, China had a gross domestic product of $1.45 trillion, smaller than that of the United Kingdom, and an average per capita GDP of just over $1,100.