Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Hu's Legacy

The 18th Party Congress is coming to an end. So I decided to swing by to Popup Chinese to listen to Sinica, a China news podcast. Of course the conversation soon turns to the question of internal party democracy. As Jeremy Goldkorn says, "Come on, let's be straight, they're not going to make any meaningful reforms to the way the place is governed at this f**king meeting." More over at Popup Chinese.

How will the Hu period be remembered? Welfare will probably be high on the list, and rightly so. 

In the coming years though, China will have to run faster and faster just to keep up. Reading the news today, I'm optimistic about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free trade bloc encompassing nearly 700 million people. Its unwitting midwife the CCP.


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