POST: China Still Wrestling with Maintaining Control and Loosening GripARTICLE: Chinese watch political jockeying from sidelines, By Lindsay Beck, Reuters, Oct 13, 2007
Nice post by Steve on the Chinese Communist Party congress. No surprises from Hu, befitting his Fourth-Generation leadership upbringing. That homebody crew (they--by and large--stayed home for college) has definitely got a focus on the rural poor, which is appropriate right now. But it makes them way too cautious on foreign policy, which is creating an overhang of sorts as China's pol-mil capabilities and connectivity doesn't keep pace with its economic and network capabilities and connectivity.
Correcting that overhang will be a job left to the Fifth and Sixth Generations.
Steve, BTW, started out as a China scholar in the same way I started out as a Soviet scholar.
(Thanks: Tom Wade for the Reuters article)
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