David Rothkopf: It's hard to get a read on this, if everything has been hashed out before. He says the Chinese elite are actually quite divided by Xi Jinping's rule. The final part that we're waiting for is that this Congress will approve amendments to the party constitution, he says. "Words can matter in very closed, very ritualistic systems"
State media have taken to calling President Xi Jinping “the helmsman”; at the five-yearly meeting he defended his means of steering the country. We ask how to read between his tightly prepared lines. Many of America’s firms will soon deliver disappointing profits—and there is more to blame than simple business cycles. And research suggests that parenthood causes fathers’ brains to shrink.
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