From China Media Project:
As the wooden, carefully crafted proceedings of the recent 17th National Congress painfully demonstrated, the public face of Chinese politics is all about, well, “face.” But yesterday’s news brought what by Chinese standards was a jarring story of open and edgy political exchange.
According to reports from newspapers across China, debates on the floor of Guangdong Province’s “two meetings” (people’s congress and political consultative conference/两会) really heated up this week.