Replies to post #5730 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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By Thursday, a number of ranking party members with years of experience following Chinese politics were generally in agreement that Mr. Xi, 59, had suffered either a mild heart attack or a stroke, forcing him to cancel his appointments.

Is this the whole story, IYO?

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China’s Party Congress formally begins on Nov 8:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/world/asia/chinese-communist-party-still-unsettled-over-changes.html

Plans for the political agenda and some slots in the new leadership have been tightly contested and closely held. Several people with ties to top leaders usually aware of details for the party congress said they did not even know the event’s starting date until shortly before it was announced.

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The printed version of the NYT article in #msg-81353018 had the following paragraph:

The timing of the abrupt zigzags in Chinese economic policy appears to have matched factional struggles within the Communist Party…

This echoes what you said in #msg-79551868 and in other posts in that thread.