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13 November 2012 08:54
Edward Kus helped to put this post together.
- Zhang Lifeng, Editor in Chief of the Financial Times Chinese language website, asked his Weibo (Chinese Twitter) followers what question they most want to ask at the 18th Party Congress press conference. See some of the more than 600 replies.
- the WSJ brings together two experts, Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution and Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College, to debate China's prospects for political reform as the leadership transition progresses.
- Tons of Congress-related reading at ChinaFile.
- I've recommended the Sinica podcasts before. Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn, both based in Beijing, discuss the Party Congress with The Economist's Gady Epstein, and they will no doubt have a wrap-up in days to come.
- Who are the front runners for the top party posts? Cheng Li from Brookings has a run-down of China's top 25 future leaders.
- The Lowy Institute's Linda Jakobson also offers her thoughts on what we can expect from Xi Jinping and his right hand man Li Keqiang.
- What is Hu Jintao's legacy to Xi Jinping?
- The Communist Party's 'old guard' maintain their stronghold over the party's top leadership, according to Qian Gang, an expert in deciphering the Communist Party's terminology, who has subjected outgoing General Secretary Hu Jintao's 'work report' to a preliminary once-over.
- China Bystander agrees: '...absent the acute crisis that initiated substantial economic reform in the late 1970s and early 1990s, certainly possible if not probable, the rebalancing of China’s economy will continue to be slow and cautious.'
- Spiegel says Xi Jinping 'will seek to solidify China's position as the world's second superpower, next to the United States, using both military muscle and the tools of economic policy.'
- As you'd expect, Foreign Policy has lots of material on the Party Congress, which they modestly describe as the 'definitive coverage'.