Post by peterd on Nov 14, 2012 8:16:53 GMT -8
It is no mystery that the main issue in the Chinese Communist Party 18th National Congress, which concludes this week, is political reform, as both outgoing President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have said on several occasions in recent months.
China's political transition is of massive importance for the world. The crucial relevance of the whole Bo Xilai affair is also about political reforms. In a more open political system, a man like Bo, the disgraced party secretary from Chongqing, would have been stopped long before he could cause serious damage, or he would have amended his ways to run for the top position with full legality.
Yet political reforms are not simply a Chinese internal matter. As
www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NK15Ad02.html
China's political transition is of massive importance for the world. The crucial relevance of the whole Bo Xilai affair is also about political reforms. In a more open political system, a man like Bo, the disgraced party secretary from Chongqing, would have been stopped long before he could cause serious damage, or he would have amended his ways to run for the top position with full legality.
Yet political reforms are not simply a Chinese internal matter. As
www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NK15Ad02.html