China’s next leader a political mystery man
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BEIJING — Xi Jinping, the man who would be China’s next leader, is a market-friendly but politically enigmatic figure whose weak power base may prevent him putting a stamp on the nation for some time, analysts say.
China’s vice president appeared to have his path to power in 2013 cleared on Monday when the all-powerful Communist Party named him to a military post seen as the final medal on the next leader’s chest.
His ascension to vice chairman of the Central Military Commission — the country’s top military body — will set off three years of scrutiny into what type of man Xi is politically, but so far observers have little to go on.
The son of a revolutionary hero, Xi, 57, is widely seen as friendly to market reform from his years as the top party boss in China’s financial hub Shanghai and the economically dynamic eastern provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian.
“He is very market-friendly and it is highly likely that he would speak on behalf of the middle class and private sector and deal with state monopolies,” said Cheng Li, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a US think-tank..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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