(November 15, 2012 at 3:25 pm)Chuck Wrote: Why be excessively interested in the changes in top chinese leadership when no amount of external interest would allow observer to penetrate its opacity and make any meaningful statement about the impact of this change upon Chinese policy?
The key characteristics of chinese politicians, consciously cultivated by the CCP, is to be low key, sprout platitudes if cornered, and say absolutely nothing in public about your true public policy views. One face in the heirarchy is consciously made to be indistinguishable from another from policy perspective, so what if one such face is replaced by another?
Also, in China there is a long tradition which views attracting attention to one's true views as nothing less than death in politics. One should do, but never say. Anyone who doesn't heed this lesson, such as one Mr. Bo Xilei, in expelled from the party and will probably spend the rest of his life in house arrest. So why pay attention to anything the new leadership says?
I hope I am getting this wrong due to lingual differences,
Are you saying that we shouldnt bother news from a country which has a intransparent totalitarian goverment, simply because "who will rule" is known from the start of the transition of power?
If yes, transitions of power, eaven in totalitarian states such as the PRC, have always ment that a amount of change would occure in this country.
Deng Xiaoping?
