Chinese Leader May Delay Call on a Successor: NYT

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Chris Buckley, Defying Script, Chinese Leader May Delay Call on a Successor. New York Times, Oct 5, 2016 (front-page top article).
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/0 ... successor.html?_r=0

two consecutive paragraphs:

"But some officials and analysts are already saying that he [Xi] wants to shunt Mr Li , the premier, into a lesser job. There are whispers that Mr Xi wants to raise the retirement age for the Standing Committee so that Wang Qishan, the powerful head of the party's anticorruption agency, can stay on, possibly to replace Mr Li.

"Mr Wang, a longtime friend of Mr. Xi’s, spent a career as an economic firefighter before taking his current job, in which he has helped Mr Xi oust potential opponents.  Mr Wang will be 69 by the time of the next congress [in late 2017]

My comment:
(a) Despite the prominent display, this report does not say anything new -- at least to us who are familiar with Chinese scenes (but new to ordinary Americans for sure). The only worthy reading is the quotation above (relatively speaking, because even the quotation is about something we heard of months ago).
(b) The cn.nytimes,com has not translated the report.