Tea Leaf Nation

With China’s new slate of top leaders finally unveiled, Web users quickly took to Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, to share their impressions. While many were confined to speculating about whether new leader Xi Jinping and his colleagues would pursue the road toward reform, others attempted something a bit more, er, scientific: The horoscope. Less than [...]

  China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition is set to begin this week at the 18th Communist Party Congress.The result is a foregone conclusion: news outlets have known for months that Xi Jinping is to succeed Hu Jintao as president of China, while Li Keqiang will be taking the reins from Wen Jiabao as premier. The predetermined [...]