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China Appoints Xi Vice President, Heir Apparent to Hu

Bloomberg reports the new appointment of Chinese top leaders: Xi Jinping, the son of an army veteran, was appointed today as China’s vice president, the next step in an orchestrated plan for him to succeed Hu Jintao as the country’s head of state in 2013. Hu, 65, was named today by China’s legislature to his second and final five-year term as president and head of China’s military