<![CDATA[This is how things work in a communist autocracy. State media reports that everything is fine and everyone in the government who is in contact with the dear leader has nothing but complete and utter respect for him. And then, occasionally, people in power just disappear. Sometimes there is a report that someone in a trusted position is under investigation for some vague crime. The bottom line in a one party state like China is that the leader is never wrong but sometimes the people around him fail to live up to his high expectations.]]>