OK, a quick roundup of various responses to the Big Shit Cake. A rundown of the new bosses' tastes and predilections here and another here, this latter according to their human rights record.
Both note that Wang Qishan, the PBSC token ‘liberal' has been given responsibility for CDIC, the CPC’s internal police. This strikes me as a classic hospital pass: Wang either ruins his reputation for competence and hostility to corruption or his reputation as a liberal: kidnapping people and holding them under constant interrogation for six months in hotels taken over for the purpose is not a rule of law thing. Elsewhere, Evan Osnos gives us Xi as Mr Smooth; the punters approve of his diction.
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