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Sunday, December 30, 2012

China's New Hatchet Man

China's New Hatchet Man

David Ignatius, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- Who will have the world's hardest job in 2013? There are many candidates for that role, but my nominee would be Vice Premier Wang Qishan, who has just been given the near-impossible assignment of combating corruption in China.China-watchers see Wang as a crucial player in the new Chinese government headed by Xi Jinping. It will fall to Wang, as the new head of the Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline, to crack the whip and stop the thievery before it devours China.Wang's nickname in Chinese is "chief of the fire brigade," earned in earlier...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/30/chinas_new_hatchet_man_116544.html

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