I have had a really hard time writing today’s issue because I think this Party Congress is even harder to figure out than previous ones on the Xi Era.
The new Politburo Standing Committee is Xi Jinping 习近平, Li Qiang 李强, Zhao Leji 赵乐际, Wang Huning 王沪宁, Cai Qi 蔡奇, Ding Xuexiang 丁薛祥 and Li Xi 李希. “Running the table” does not do enough to describe how Xi ou…