China names new premier as transition nears end

Incoming Premier Li Keqiang, right, walks past Chinese President Xi Jinping during a plenary session of the National People's Congress where Li is expected to be named China's new premier in Beijing Friday, March 15, 2013. / AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

BEIJING China is formally installing the Communist Party's second-ranked leader, Li Keqiang, as premier, as a once-a-decade leadership transition nears its well-ordered conclusion.

The largely powerless legislature overwhelmingly selected Li on Friday, a day after legislators appointed party chief Xi Jinping to the ceremonial state presidency.

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The appointments were foreordained after Xi and Li ascended to the leadership's top spots at a party congress in November.

Since then, they have signaled that they intend to combat widespread official corruption, try to lessen a wide income gap and repair the severely polluted environment -- issues that are driving public discontent.

The legislature's annual session and the political transition reach their end this weekend with the appointment of Cabinet officials to manage the economy, foreign affairs and an increasingly fractious society.

[jefforsythe]

The new president's biggest challenge will be how to hide the corruption and the million of heinous crimes against humanity that the brutal Chinese Communist Party has committed since 1949.Crimes such as the murder of a hundred million innocent citizens, crimes such as the genocide, which is going on right now, of the tens of millions of innocent Falun Gong practitioners by the use of torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. Just recently, a young pregnant Falun Gong was put in a prison cell with four hardened criminals, where she was raped continuously on Party orders. Let us not forget the hundreds of hidden slave camps. The cruel CCP is simply a gangster regime that teaches its people godlessness and brutality and Western companies line up to do business as usual because of insatiable greed. The worst crime of all is the crime against conscience.

[UForgotPoland]

The US recessions is going to seem like a boy scout gathering compared to the issues China will face with their out of control economy and demographics.