BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party claims a mandate for one-party rule not from voters but from a long-ago revolution, yet when the Party holds its key congress next month, "democracy" will stud the speeches to rows of obedient delegates.
Not that wary President Hu Jintao is about to mutate into a bold Gorbachev-like liberaliser as he prepares to claim five more years in power at the 17th Party Congress.
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