From Straits Times, via Taiwan Security Research:
From out of the blue, a flurry of news articles this week seem to hint at a potential scuttling of President Hu Jintao‘s game plan for a major leadership reshuffle next month.
The highlight of the reshuffle – many political observers had predicted – was to have been Mr Hu’s anointment of his protege Li Keqiang, 52, as his successor to the Chinese leadership in 2012.
Mr Li, who gained Mr Hu’s trust when the two of them worked together in the Communist Youth League in the 1980s, is widely seen as the front runner to be China’s ‘Fifth Generation” leader.
But news emerged on Monday that things might not go so smoothly. [Full Text]
