To: TigerLikesRooster
I thought Jiang was long gone. Retired.
Did Kim Jong-il think he’d be a shoulder to cry on?
3 posted on
06/09/2011 7:25:07 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Steely Tom
Yes. Jiang is retired but still the godfather of Shanghai Gang, which fields 4 members at Politburo's Standing Committee. Xi Jingping, the presumed successor to current leader Hu Jintao, is also a kind of protege of Jiang. So he does have some influence, but may not want to go out on a limb for Chia Head.
4 posted on
06/09/2011 7:59:14 PM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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