For the last two days Chinese media has been abuzz with the news that Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping took a very ordinary taxi ride in Beijing.
Foreign analysts are questioning China’s latest trade figures, with some saying the new Communist Party leadership could be trying to paint a picture of economic recovery.
An official notice hung in a plastic sleeve on a banner at the Star Ferry in Hong Kong on April 1 seems to mark the end of almost 10 months of unrelenting hate propaganda and harassment targeting Falun Gong practitioners in the special administrative region. That notice may have also served as a white flag of surrender by an increasingly desperate Communist Party faction.
The former chairman of PetroChina recently received a large amount of bad press, which may be a sign of disciplinary action by the new Communist Party leadership as warring factions continue to clash.
Investing over US$6 trillion over the next ten years to increase urbanization in China is being touted as a cure for the Chinese economy’s ills. Experts say the cure may be worse than the disease.