Market Overview  China Changes Leaders  China's 18th Communist
Party Congress opens tomorrow and will feature a once-in-a-
decade change in the top leadership of the ruling Communist
party. Vice President Xi Jinping will become Secretary-general
of the Communist party and President of China, succeeding Hu
Jintao. Vice-Premier Li Keqiang is expected to succeed the
current premier, Wen Jiabao.  China's top leadership changes
every ten years in an opaque process hidden from public view.
The power struggle surrounding the current transfer of power was
particularly contentious, resulting in the ouster of Bo Xilai,
considered a hardliner who might make trouble for the more
moderate technocrats heading today's Communist party. Xilai is
accused of murdering a British businessman with ties to the
U.K.'s spy agency, MI6. Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, has already been
convicted of complicity in the murder and was given a suspended
death sentence.  According to analysis in the Financial Times,
political reform in China is “the ne