Professor Kenneth Hammond: I heard an unexpectedly good report on NPR this afternoon, concerning the 6th Plenum meeting in Beijing this week.

Professor Kenneth Hammond: I heard an unexpectedly good report on NPR this afternoon, concerning the 6th Plenum meeting in Beijing this week.

It was a calm and clear analysis of Xi Jinping’s program, with a bit of a retrospective commentary on the history of the PRC. It was by John Ruwitch. The interviewer kept trying to push him to say negative things about China and Xi, but he kept it very straightforward and basically tried to make Xi’s program sound like a good thing for China. It was strange to hear it on NPR, but good to have at least one reasonable voice out there on a significant media outlet.