A year ago I was asked my opinion on the anointment of Xi Jinping as vice president and leader of the "party of princelings," as the new generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders is derisively called by some in China. I replied: "A dark era shall soon arrive, a dark era shall soon end." The April 3 arrest of the respected Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei illustrates this point.
The Chinese word that best describes the party of princelings is heng (brutal). Many top Communist Party officials, including Mr. Xi and Bo Xilai, the party chief of Chongqing City, ...
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