Anyone have any idea what the Hu Jintao drama was about? Peak Purge?
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There's a video showing him being escorted in with someone helping him get there. He looked frail as is. So, maybe, it could also just be health related (which obviously can be used against him too).
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counterpoint maybe (no idea)
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Wen-ti Sung, lecturer at Australian National U, said “from the [close-up video], it seems that Li Zhanshu, who sat next to Hu Jintao, tried to help Hu [...] even briefly stood up [...], a gesture of respect. So Li didn’t seem to find Hu politically toxic to be paying respect to” twitter.com/DAlperovitch/s…
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Yea, it's pretty wild to watch. Seems like this Party Congress really is the coronation people were thinking it would be.
I like the conspiracy theory that to US assisted Xi's rise b/c we knew he'd slow their econ progress, but seems too good to be true.
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