Xi Jinping, the current consensus candidate to succeed Hu Jintao in about three years’ time, is on a tour of Japan. He has met, not without excitement or a bit of controversy in Tokyo, Akihito, the Japanese emperor.
Oddly enough, December 13 was the anniversary of the Rape of Nanking; Xinhua quietly issued a few new photographs of the battle for Nanking, seeming far more interested in achieving present aims with Japan than settling past scores.
Xinhua is, naturally, following Xi’s trip ardently.
Adam Cathcart 