China’s top leader emerged from four days of secret Communist Party meetings Tuesday with renewed calls for a more harmonious society. But uplifting slogans aside, the real agenda for President Hu Jintao was power ” consolidating it, strengthening it and ensuring its effective use in finessing the enormous rifts bedeviling Chinese society.
Party meetings here tend to fall into two categories ” those shrouded in secrecy where real decisions are made and their carefully scripted cousins held in public view with legions of officials acting in relative unison. The just-concluded plenary session of the Central Committee was of the secret variety. The committee’s 354 members, wreathed in heavy security, holed up in the Jingxi hotel to concentrate on personnel changes, networking and endorsing the next five-year economic plan.
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