Where’s ‘Waldo’? The Internet and the Mysterious Case of the Missing Vice President of China
Vice President Xi Jingping, the man presumed to be China’s next president, is missing. He has not been seen since the first of September when he addressed the Central Party School in Beijing. Planned meetings with Hillary Clinton and the prime ministers of Singapore and Denmark have been canceled. The absence has aroused such interest [...]
“I’ll see your Bo Yibo and I’ll raise you Xi Zhongxun”: Factionalism and succession in the Chinese Communist Party
The current behind-the-scenes political travails in China as President Hu Jintao prepares the transition to the country’s next President in 2013 can be compared to game of poker or perhaps more accurately to a popular card game from Britain in the 1970s and 1980s known as top-trumps. In the game top-trumps children picked a handful of [...]
