Leaked Speech Shows Xi Jinping’s Opposition to Reform

While a recent crackdown on wrongdoing by officials has encouraged those who want to see an end to official corruption in China, hopes are diminishing over the prospects for more substantive political reform under incoming president Xi Jinping. A speech Xi gave in December has recently been distribut ...
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2 Responses to Leaked Speech Shows Xi Jinping’s Opposition to Reform

Will says:

January 28, 2013 at 9:50 PM

Xi Jinping’s death-grip lockhold on one-party authoritarian rule is typical of privileged Party princelings.

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Dave S. says:

January 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM

“Yeltsin gave a speech standing on a tank, but the military made no response, keeping so-called ‘neutrality.’ ”

Xi is also endorsing the massacre in Beijing in 1989, so don’t expect any openness on that subject either. The only reforms I would have any hope of passing are loosening the one child policy and perhaps some hukou reforms, particularly when it comes to letting immigrant children attend local schools.

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