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<DIV>"Streamlining"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>President Xia Hong</DIV>
<DIV>The People's Republic of China</DIV>
<DIV>5, March 2013</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>(The Red Room- People's Estate)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"You're asking for... considerable changes, Madame President."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Xia folded her hands and stared at the three men on the opposite side of
her desk. In the center was Genao Hu, the newly minted speaker of the
People's National Congress (PNC). Flanking him were the two major faction
leaders, Xi Jinping, the chief of the Politburo and moderate, as well as Zhou
Yongkang, the long standing Chinese Police Chief and appointed leader of the
hard-liner 'Maoists'. Three people whom either directly represented, or
had connections to, all the various political groups in China. Although
she was a veritable dictator at the moment, given the amount of power placed in
a President's hands, she really needed these men to be onboard with her
plan.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"The People cannot afford the continued, needless, squandering of resources
and political infighting that has enveloped the agencies of their
government." Xia folded her hands together. "Clearly, something must
be done to minimize this burden. The plan before you allows us to do just
that."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Your plan has us removing the Chief of National Police as a Politburo
member." Zhou frowned. "The people would be dissatisfied to here an
important security position is being undermined."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"The importance of the Chinese National Police is hardly being
undermined," Xia smiled politely. "In fact it will become the lead
organization of the new Ministry of Justice under an appointed National
Attorney."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"An attorney appointed by you." Zhou shot back.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"And confirmed by the PNC." Xia defended herself. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"You are wanting us to give you the power to reshape the Politburo."
Jinping clasped his hands together. "May I ask Madame President,
why?"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"You mean other than the estimated 9 billion dollars in savings?"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"At the cost of thousands of Civil Service jobs." Zhou
countered.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Unnecessary jobs filled by employees who will have no problem finding like
work elsewhere now that the global economy is back on track." Xia
perried. "But additionally, as we are all aware from our Constitutional
classes back in school, the power of China rests in her people; it is the
promise of a socialist system." She didn't raise the point by chance, it
was the 1980's amended constitution that emphasized that point... one written by
Deng Xiaoping back in the Tienemen days... and Deng was a mentor of Xi
Jinping. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Everyone nodded.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Then the people need to better understand how it is their government
works. Quite simply there are so many overlapping jurisdictions for
various agencies and bureaus that our finest legal minds are often vexed to keep
up. My proposal takes into account the advice of China's finest legal
consultants and judicial specialists. In addition, I've consulted a number
of former contacts in the PNC. The Politburo has been briefed... I know
this 'looks' like a big change on paper, but all we are doing is simply renaming
the members of the Politburo by the ministries they will be running. I've
got several nominations for each position, again upon consultation, and I'm sure
we can all agree that those names represent accurately the diversity that is
China."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Sure enough Xia's nominations did 'just' that. The new Politburo
would resemble in great detail a western style cabinet, featuring a number of
advisors:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Prime Minister</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Defense</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of State Affairs</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Security and Intelligence</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Justice</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of the Treasury</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of the Interior</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Health</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Education</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Social Services</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Commerce</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Science and Technology</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Agriculture</DIV>
<DIV>Minister of Transportation</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Under each Ministry would rest certain agencies, increasing the size of the
Politburo and thus centralizing the power of the various agencies under unified
offices, as the architects of the Constitution had intended. Additional,
minute details, included rules regarding the civil service, a modest pay raise
and raise in benefits, and rules regarding the reduction of the workforce.
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In her eyes it was a series of plainly beneficial moves that should be
adopted without hesitation.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>To some however, it could be seen as an unwelcome interruption to daily
business as agencies were reorganized under new leadership. She knew
that... which is why they were having this meeting. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There was silence as the three men once again reviewed the names, each one
grimacing or nodding with approval as they considered the specific
persons. It was probably the longest 5 minutes in Xia's life, at least
since Wen's eulogy.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Are you negotiable on these names?" Jinping raised an eyebrow.
He knew some were locks, the Prime Minister for example already existed, and
thus was locked in.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Xia grinned victoriously. "There is always room for
negotiation."</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>ACTION</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1. Remodeling of Government: Using constitutional powers
afforded by the last few Amendments to China's Constitution, centralize the
various Chinese agencies, such as the CNP, the PLA, etc. under a Ministerial
system, created out of the old Politburo, and appointed by the President
and confirmed by the PNC.</DIV></FONT><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="eff3e55b9ae5f2373cc626b8940e43a4"><br/><font style="color:black;font:normal 10pt arial,san-serif;"> <hr style="margin-top:10px"/></font></DIV></BODY></HTML>