Princelings Hold Sway Now, But What About 2017?
Reuters’ Benjamin Kang Lim takes stock of the Communist Party’s new Politburo Standing Committee, where power has shifted from the technocrats to the “princeling” faction under the recently-completed leadership transition, and ponders what it means:
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Indeed, the chief goal of the Party elite is to maintain one-party dictatorship, and to keep a death grip on rampant censorship of the internet and media, stifle the freedom of speech in a myriad ways, and keep spending more tax money on internal security or “stability maintenance” even than on the military with its annual double-digit spending hikes. This is a recipe for more authoritarian police-state suppression of dissenting voices.