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 [...]

There was no drum roll, no white smoke from a chimney, and no ceremonial passing of the envelope, but the suspense was almost unbearable. On November 15, Chinese Internet users, domestic and foreign media alike waited with baited breath for new members of China’s ultra-powerful Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) to meet the press in the [...]