Post by jakaswanga on Sept 11, 2012 19:44:29 GMT 3
1. SUCCESSION BLUES IN CHINA: WHERE IS XI JINGPIN?
HU JINTAO, the current President of the Peoples Republic of China, PRC, is on his way out. Step down he must this year, in one of the unwritten rules governing the tempers in the viperous nest at the top of China. Amen. But will he get a kick in the but from his comrades, to hasten him on?
After the Bo Xilai scandal, and the Ling Jihua ferrarigate, both these men tipped to join the apex of Chinese leadership, the central committee of the CP, in the pending reshuffle as Hu Jintao exits, now breaks the story of Xi Jinping gone missing. Where is Xi Jinping? the president to-be of the most populous nation on earth, the second economy in the world, and the next super-power?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19553903
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His other titles include Chairman of the Military Commission, and SG of the CP. This CP should be Communist Party, but widely in China it is ridiculed as the PCP. Party of Communist Princelings. That is the CPC, now in its fourth and fifth generations of leadership, sounds like a distant echo from the revolutionary founders, and increasingly looks like a corrupt, nepotistic, bureaucratic and hereditary red-royal monarchist affair, pitting the two prominent clans in the competition for succession. The Shanghai clique vs the Tsinghua axis of the oligarchy. And the opacity of the party's succession rituals are darker and more occultic than the medieval ones of selecting a pope, with one colour of other of smoke to billow from an old chimney high up above Vatican city]
To be fair to him, Hu Jintao looks to have been an exception, for he is no red princeling, but the son of a non party nobody who was contracted purely for his abilities, chief of which was as an exceptional engineer and executor of engineering projects. And in his decade at the top, backed by the ebullient fellow engineer Wen Jiabao, they sure have engineered the dreamed of GREAT LEAP FORWARD. China's prominence as a world economic power, and her intimidatory pose even if the wolf wears the sheep-skin called Soft-Power.
Great Mao, senile on his death bed in Beijin, watching them build his mausoleum as he still lived, breathed his last yelling! My great leap forward! My great leap forward I promised the Chinese! where is it?! O where is it! --so goes the legend.
Hu-Jintao's tenure at the helm, anchoring China as a global power, has gone a long way in soothing the dying chairman's demons. Methinks.
But transitions are a treacherous affair even for the super clever, as our own Kibaki knows only too well, and all is not well with the plans of Hu Jintao. His long-term ally, friend and chief of staff, Ling Jihua has been demoted following a scandal involving his son. --The official title of this Ling is something like Head of Party Secretariat at the Politburo of the Communist Party of China. And Politburo can further be extended to read Central Running Committee of! --No wonder the chemical engineer apparently destined to succeed Hu Jintao once joked, these titles of ours sound like the scientific names of organic compounds which nobody outside really uses. ;DAnybody on the blog know the scientific name of the alcohol we drink daily, as in beer or wine? I bet it is longer than the full name of the Sultan of Brunei! --
Ling Jihua head of the party secretariat at the politburo, demoted
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/03/china-scandal-fatal-ferrari-crash
Here is more of the ferrari tragedy that not only ended the career of Ling Jihua, but also the life of his only son.
www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120904-369493.html
While in mainland China the Internet can not even return searches on the word FERRARI, non censored Chinese sites have gone ballistic with the story. Two half-naked females were in the Ferrari, and what was really going on before the fatal crash? It is a story on the unbridled corruption of yet another generation of princelings. The price of a Ferrari is known: where do the barely teen-age sons of allegedly spartan, monkish party bigwigs get the money to compete Joseph Kabila's collection of cars?
You ask that in China, you will not just be declared mad like Miguna Miguna, but verily you will end up in a Mathare mental ward with Conjestina Achieng'.
But as Joseph Yu-Shek, the professor of political science from HongKong's City University, intimated, also in an article widely quoted in the South China Pacific papers Eg SCMP, Ling Jihua's replacement, the 62 year-old Li Zhansu from Guizou provice, is a new sleepy dog on the job who takes ages to rise to the bite. So rumours have filled in the gap of silence from the politburo mouthpieces.
One rumour: those loyal to Bo Xilai staged-managed an accident in which Xi Jinping was injured! And where is Bo Xilai by the way? secretly executed? or a secret golden parachute?
Hu Jintao looked so absent minded at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum [APEC] in Vladivostok Russia, that Vladimir Putin had to put in an excuse for him:
www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1033691/hu-jintao-lacklustre-apec-summit-vladivostok
HU JINTAO, the current President of the Peoples Republic of China, PRC, is on his way out. Step down he must this year, in one of the unwritten rules governing the tempers in the viperous nest at the top of China. Amen. But will he get a kick in the but from his comrades, to hasten him on?
After the Bo Xilai scandal, and the Ling Jihua ferrarigate, both these men tipped to join the apex of Chinese leadership, the central committee of the CP, in the pending reshuffle as Hu Jintao exits, now breaks the story of Xi Jinping gone missing. Where is Xi Jinping? the president to-be of the most populous nation on earth, the second economy in the world, and the next super-power?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19553903
BBC: China is the world's second biggest economy, its rising superpower, and is on the cusp of a once-in-a-decade leadership change, but the man expected to take over at the head of the Communist Party has vanished from view, and we don't know why.
Is Xi Jinping sick? Has he had a mild heart attack? Did he hurt his back playing football or swimming? Is he extraordinarily busy preparing for the day, probably next month, when he will be elevated to take over from Hu Jintao as the head of China's Communist Party, or is there some more sinister power struggle happening?
All have been suggested as explanations on China's buzzing social media sites.
Is Xi Jinping sick? Has he had a mild heart attack? Did he hurt his back playing football or swimming? Is he extraordinarily busy preparing for the day, probably next month, when he will be elevated to take over from Hu Jintao as the head of China's Communist Party, or is there some more sinister power struggle happening?
All have been suggested as explanations on China's buzzing social media sites.
His other titles include Chairman of the Military Commission, and SG of the CP. This CP should be Communist Party, but widely in China it is ridiculed as the PCP. Party of Communist Princelings. That is the CPC, now in its fourth and fifth generations of leadership, sounds like a distant echo from the revolutionary founders, and increasingly looks like a corrupt, nepotistic, bureaucratic and hereditary red-royal monarchist affair, pitting the two prominent clans in the competition for succession. The Shanghai clique vs the Tsinghua axis of the oligarchy. And the opacity of the party's succession rituals are darker and more occultic than the medieval ones of selecting a pope, with one colour of other of smoke to billow from an old chimney high up above Vatican city]
To be fair to him, Hu Jintao looks to have been an exception, for he is no red princeling, but the son of a non party nobody who was contracted purely for his abilities, chief of which was as an exceptional engineer and executor of engineering projects. And in his decade at the top, backed by the ebullient fellow engineer Wen Jiabao, they sure have engineered the dreamed of GREAT LEAP FORWARD. China's prominence as a world economic power, and her intimidatory pose even if the wolf wears the sheep-skin called Soft-Power.
Great Mao, senile on his death bed in Beijin, watching them build his mausoleum as he still lived, breathed his last yelling! My great leap forward! My great leap forward I promised the Chinese! where is it?! O where is it! --so goes the legend.
Hu-Jintao's tenure at the helm, anchoring China as a global power, has gone a long way in soothing the dying chairman's demons. Methinks.
But transitions are a treacherous affair even for the super clever, as our own Kibaki knows only too well, and all is not well with the plans of Hu Jintao. His long-term ally, friend and chief of staff, Ling Jihua has been demoted following a scandal involving his son. --The official title of this Ling is something like Head of Party Secretariat at the Politburo of the Communist Party of China. And Politburo can further be extended to read Central Running Committee of! --No wonder the chemical engineer apparently destined to succeed Hu Jintao once joked, these titles of ours sound like the scientific names of organic compounds which nobody outside really uses. ;DAnybody on the blog know the scientific name of the alcohol we drink daily, as in beer or wine? I bet it is longer than the full name of the Sultan of Brunei! --
From wikipedia Hassanal Bolkiah, GCB GCMG (full name: Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien; born 15 July 1946) is the 29th and current Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei.
Ling Jihua head of the party secretariat at the politburo, demoted
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/03/china-scandal-fatal-ferrari-crash
Here is more of the ferrari tragedy that not only ended the career of Ling Jihua, but also the life of his only son.
www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120904-369493.html
While in mainland China the Internet can not even return searches on the word FERRARI, non censored Chinese sites have gone ballistic with the story. Two half-naked females were in the Ferrari, and what was really going on before the fatal crash? It is a story on the unbridled corruption of yet another generation of princelings. The price of a Ferrari is known: where do the barely teen-age sons of allegedly spartan, monkish party bigwigs get the money to compete Joseph Kabila's collection of cars?
You ask that in China, you will not just be declared mad like Miguna Miguna, but verily you will end up in a Mathare mental ward with Conjestina Achieng'.
But as Joseph Yu-Shek, the professor of political science from HongKong's City University, intimated, also in an article widely quoted in the South China Pacific papers Eg SCMP, Ling Jihua's replacement, the 62 year-old Li Zhansu from Guizou provice, is a new sleepy dog on the job who takes ages to rise to the bite. So rumours have filled in the gap of silence from the politburo mouthpieces.
One rumour: those loyal to Bo Xilai staged-managed an accident in which Xi Jinping was injured! And where is Bo Xilai by the way? secretly executed? or a secret golden parachute?
Hu Jintao looked so absent minded at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum [APEC] in Vladivostok Russia, that Vladimir Putin had to put in an excuse for him:
www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1033691/hu-jintao-lacklustre-apec-summit-vladivostok
SOUTHCHINAMORNIGPOST: But Hu's speech was delivered without flair.
Putin was quoted by media reports as explaining during the closing press conference that Hu had been distracted by domestic issues, such as the deadly earthquakes in Yunnan , during the meeting.
Putin was quoted by media reports as explaining during the closing press conference that Hu had been distracted by domestic issues, such as the deadly earthquakes in Yunnan , during the meeting.