In Beijing, the people's circus is underway – China News

www.latimes.com — Inside the Great Hall of the People, it's all canned speeches and stilted words of praise for the Chinese Communist Party. Yes, it's the annual National People's Congress. Yawn. The LA Times on the CCP's annual "party".

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