What has a ‘red Yangtze’ got to do with Xi Jinping?

By PEH SHING HUEI

THE Yangtze River mysteriously turned red. Thousands of alligators strangely surfaced at a lake in Nanjing. An earthquake rocked a border province, killing 81.

To make things worse, a crown prince about to ascend the throne has disappeared.

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