I have a really cool opportunity to teach tomorrow, so let me see if I can find something interesting to post.
This is mildly interesting. The communists are killing off their old leadership.
Mikhail Gorbachev was most likely euthanized, which is legal in Russia and now Hu Jintao is missing.The communists are getting rid of the old guard. Why? Because peace is not an agenda item and the old guys are saying things like, "Are you crazy?" I find it interesting Hu Jintao found it necessary to approach party leadership in order to deliver a message. Why is it so difficult for the President to speak to the leadership of the party. No Xi is not president of China. There is a division of authority that is very different. It is communism. It is very different.
No communist leadership wants to hear from Hu otherwise it would not be a struggle to communicate with Xi and he would not be escorted away.
It is another five year plan. I guess the old guard is not welcome.
It is a moment (click here) that for many observers has come to define strongman leader Xi Jinping’s tightening grip on China: his visibly frail predecessor, Hu Jintao, being escorted out of a key Communist Party meeting during a five-yearly leadership reshuffle – apparently at Xi’s behest.
Images of two men ushering the 79-year-old from his seat and toward the exit were beamed across the world as the party’s National Congress came to a close Saturday, leading to days of speculation over whether Hu was the victim of a deliberately public power play.
This week, those rumors have only grown – despite a claim by Chinese state media on Twitter that Hu left due to ill-health – and the intrigue is likely to grow further still with the release of footage showing the 90 seconds leading up to his sudden removal....
