Comments on: Leaked Speech Shows Xi Jinping’s Opposition to Reform http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/01/leaked-speech-shows-xi-jinpings-opposition-to-reform/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dave S. http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/01/leaked-speech-shows-xi-jinpings-opposition-to-reform/#comment-60964 Dave S. Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:58:36 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=150675#comment-60964 “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.

]]> By: Will http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/01/leaked-speech-shows-xi-jinpings-opposition-to-reform/#comment-60961 Will Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:50:45 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=150675#comment-60961 Xi Jinping’s death-grip lockhold on one-party authoritarian rule is typical of privileged Party princelings.

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