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As Neil Heywood lay dying from cyanide poisoning, he could not have known the plot to kill him would shake the Chinese Communist Party to its core and dramatically alter the rule of Xi Jinping.
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Roughly every decade, China’s political system cracks, its veil is rent, and its inner workings are laid bare. 2012, the Year of the Dragon, is turning out to be one of those periods when the country’s high priests can’t quite carry out their rituals as planned.The disruption to China’s well-ordered political world was set off by the upcoming 18th Party Congress, when the
The Chinese were gloating over the flaws of the American political system long before the election of Donald J. Trump.
On the Street in Kashgar Posted by Sophie Beach | Aug 6, 2008 Austin Ramzy of Time Magazine visited Kashgar to try to find out what was behind the recent attack on border police. As he explains, it was hard to find out much: …When I was there, a little over 24 hours after the assault, there were few signs of what happened. The site had mostly been cleaned up, and no one wanted to talk about what happened. On my flight this afternoon from Kashgar to Urumqi I saw a very real example of the violence of the attack. A man was strapped to a stretcher that was placed across the last few rows of s...