On Oct. 1, the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, nine black-haired men in dark suits stood solemnly in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Looming over the clutch of men who constitute China's current and future leadership were dozens of security cameras affixed to lampposts. Goose-stepping soldiers marched past. As always, a giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic, gazed over the square, as did hundreds of plain-clothes police with their telltale buzz cuts and watchful eyes.
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