The east will be reassuringly red today when China’s President Hu Jintao takes his place at the top of the table in the vast conference room of the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing for the opening of the 5th Plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC).
Mr Hu will oversee the meeting of hundreds of fawning comrades secure in the knowledge that his grip on power is more firm that it has ever been, but with possibly a niggle in the back of his mind that even the monolithic Communist Party could one day be swept away in a Ukranian-style orange revolution.
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