From The Christian Science Monitor :
A Chinese communist party meeting this Saturday will likely signal that President Hu Jintao has consolidated his position as leader of Asia’s largest power – a move that more formally ushers in the “Hu era” in China, a period that by party blueprint would last roughly until 2012.
The four-day plenum will also set the field for a new generation of Chinese party officials who are more aware of Western corporate management styles, yet who also profess greater loyalty to a party that under Mr. Hu seems more authoritarian and ideological, sources say, and less tolerant of liberal thought.
