“I am afraid when the phone rings, afraid of seeing people, and afraid of hearing the door bell. Why? Because I can neither stand nor sit; can’t say yes or no; can’t speak the truth nor tell lies. It’s hard to say anything.“ These words are not from dissidents, but Lin Zulian (commonly referred to [...]
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 [...]
First it was the prodigal melon; now it’s the airborne pepper. On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, a discussion recently erupted about potential high-leader-in-waiting Wang Yang after a university student in Guangdong (@思想聚焦) recalled a 2006 story in which Mr. Yang threw a farm-fresh pepper at a subordinate. As the story goes, while party chief of Chongqing [...]
Elections are so 20th-Century. Tea Leaf Nation is pleased to introduce its coverage of the 2012 Leadership S-election in China, which will take place in the second half of 2012. Move over President Obama, the S-election of the members of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo is where true political drama takes [...]
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