Opaque and unstable political process similar to European royalty and sees families pitted against one another in public in China leadership’s propaganda games

China to reveal new leaders Thursday

AFP – China’s Communist Party will on Thursday unveil the new set of top leaders who will run the country for the next decade, one day after its week-long congress ends, officials said Monday. The widely expected timing was confirmed to AFP by staff organising press coverage of the congress under way

Mao Zedong once declared: “Women hold up half the sky,” but today’s Chinese Communist Party is heavy with testosterone and when a new set of leaders is announced this week all are expected to be male. About a quarter of the delegates at the party congress under way in Beijing are women.