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Drama Hits Beijing Politics

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Sep 27, 2007
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Suddenly, a whiff of drama and suspense has suffused top-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) politics, which is still run largely along monolithic, Leninist lines. Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping has emerged as a possible successor to General Secretary and President Hu Jintao.

Latest reports from Beijing say that both Xi, 54, and Liaoning party boss …

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