Hu Jintao, a 59-year-old insider known as brilliant and bland, will be named chief of the Communist Party today, the point man in a sweeping generational shift of the nation’s leadership that was achieved through the most orderly transition in the 53-year history of the party.
I guess there are other places in the world where primaries don’t determine who the candidates are.
And the NY Times headline is Priceless:
“China Carries Out an Orderly Shift of Its Leadership”
An orderly shift of leadership. Much more preferrable than say, those messy ELECTIONS we Americans hold. Is there really one foreign government that the NY Times likes less than our own?