The Chinese Communist Party has no Senate estimates, no public inquiries, no question time. Its policies for the next five years are being decided as we speak by 200 or so officials in a Beijing hotel. The plenum has been going on for four days. There has been radio silence since Monday.
What they say, or rather what President Xi Jinping says, goes. The world won’t find out what that is until Chinese state media faithfully reports it.
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The contrast with Australia’s biannual tradition of Senate estimates is stark. In Canberra, Ministers and Departmental secretaries are hauled before…
