Berlin, December 19: True democracy prevails in China’s Communist Party Politburo which is more keen on consensus than decrees on all issues except for the Dalai Lama and Tibet, the subject on which President Hu Jintao is “firmly in charge”, a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks says.
The cable released by WikiLeaks and published by German magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ says US diplomatic sources in Beijing believe “true democracy” prevails in the Politburo of the ruling Communist party, within the little-known group of top apparatchiks consisting of 24 men and one woman.
No one outside China’s ruling cadre knows who at the top of China’s power structure decides what and why. No one knows who thinks what, who is allied with whom and who really has influence. Public debates are rare, the magazine qouted the cable as saying.
–Agencies