<blockquote> "To some analysts, this dramatic return to the days of detentions and purges is merely a powerplay by Hu ahead of a central committee meeting next month and a big party congress next year. To others it means the president has struck an alliance with the old guard, whose doctrines of state control have been reasserted in a stream of recent edicts.
If that is the case, then the purge in Shanghai heralds a fundamental shift back to the left in China."<end>
A delicious article reporting some stuckpig squealing from bigtime rich and powerful Chinese suddenly in police custody. Also reports that the arrest of the Shanghai biggies coincided with a visit from John Major (!) on behalf of the superevil Carlyle Corporation (where a leading player was/is Richard Armitage, unindicted leaker and leading Nationalsecuritystate Reichsmarschall), upsetting their "plans for a big takeover in China."
I'm sceptical of whether the CCP leadership can navigate over a long haul a turn-to-the-right then turn-to-the -left course, but even our most antistatepower anarchisti here should enjoy a chuckle when statepower is used against the rich (how could anyone have had so little human feeling at the intense human drama of the tragic personal crises that befell Lay, Skilling and Fastow not to have laughed out loud?).
john mage