Hu Jintao Returns Home From G8 Early

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…to deal with the situation in Xinjiang. This is a pretty huge deal. For President Hu to leave Rome and hurry home is a significant loss of face for him in front of the assembled world leaders  and that means that there must have been an extremely pressing reason for him to do so. And as a friend points out, that probably can only mean some sort of a split at the top in this government-by-consensus that Hu needs to return and cast the deciding vote. As my friend, one of the most avid readers of the official China media around, notes,until yesterday, Hu’s trip was played big in almost all official organs and the Xinjiang situation played down. On last night’s evening news it was all Hu in Italy with Urumqi was story number four. Now that’s suddenly turned on it’s head….