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Hu Jintao escorted out of China party congress

For context, Hu Jintao was the leader before Xi Jinping. He is considered (relatively) moderate.


Edit to add: Video from AFP

 
This previous report of non-conformity in the party.


Hu's public disappearance - pour encourager les autres? But while this demonstrates Xi's ruthlessness does it just generate more enemies and make them more careful?
 
Hopefully he isn’t near any windows or one story building stairs.
 
Hopefully he isn’t near any windows or one story building stairs.
Hey, hey, hey - this isn't Russia, there's rules ... oh, wait ....

Let's just hope his organs get put to good use ;)
 
This is the BBC's take, which seems as good or better then anything else I have read in the past few hours.

"The Communist Party's mass meetings are normally highly scripted events, leading to speculation that the timing of Hu Jintao's departure might not have been an accident.​
He attended the earlier closed-door session on the last day of the Congress, then cameras were allowed in for the final portion of the day. It was just after the cameras had set up that officials approached Mr Hu and indicated that he should go.​
That said, the party doesn't normally air its dirty laundry in public. If this was a deliberate show, it would mark a departure from usual behaviour."​

And this, same source.

"Chinese state news site Xinhua reported that Mr Hu had not been feeling well during the session. It said his staff then accompanied him from the session to rest, adding that he is "much better" now."​
 
"Chinese state news site Xinhua reported that Mr Hu had not been feeling well during the session. It said his staff then accompanied him from the session to rest, adding that he is "much better" now."
Maybe he feels better after his "nap", which is most likely permanent.

People tend to forget China is a Communist dictatorship that does not tolerate criticism.
 
I believe one observer got it right when they said "we may not know what this means, but the intended audience of the CCP knows what this means."

This was not a surprise.
You, Mr C and I all know what it means.

Its The new saying "fuck around and find out " at the political level.
 
Maybe he feels better after his "nap", which is most likely permanent.

People tend to forget China is a Communist dictatorship that does not tolerate criticism.
To be precise China may well be the World's largest and possibly only feudal industrial state.
 
Sounds like, Out with old ways and people. In with Chairman Xi and his vision of the future China.
 
I'm wondering if some sort of resistance might not have been threatening to coalesce around Hun Jintao ... whatever a resistance might look like in modern China and despite Hu's age and, understandable, ill health.

I say that I wonder because I no longer have as much reasonably trustworthy information as I had a few years ago. Things have changed, so have friendships relationships.
 
Danielle Smith enters the chat?
starting tyrod taylor GIF
 
History shows when autocrats/dictators face domestic unrest, they foist an external crisis on the domestic audience. That it was why I fear for Taiwan.
Agreed, but I think Xi has also taken a good read of the Ukraine, and while I am sure he’d like to take Taiwan, he’s knows it’s a little beyond his capabilities at this point in time.
 
Agreed, but I think Xi has also taken a good read of the Ukraine, and while I am sure he’d like to take Taiwan, he’s knows it’s a little beyond his capabilities at this point in time.
Desperate men do desperate things. I truly hope you are right.
 
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