Academics, and officials tend to be loquacious; me included. Loquaciousness can sometimes signal all kinds of things: erudition, authority, mastery of the language and forms of communication, status (or pretensions to status) with in a collective, (sometime servile) utility, and the like. And sometimes complexity cannot be reduced or communicated except in detail and through a specialized language the control of which also signals control over its content and application.
Nonetheless, sometimes it is a useful test of one's own understanding of a complex object, or ecology by attempting to reduce it to an essence. Reduction, of course, is a set of complex valuations in its own right--choosing points of emphasis and centrality, and then shaping its essence. And thus my effort--to reduce the 20th CPC National Congress to an essence.
This reduction one that may reflect my own personal points of core interests rather than those of others. The lens can change significantly depending on what perspective is more important--for example for some the core of the Congress might be the triumph of the political philosophers (and thus the political focus of the CPC and its core functions) over the long dominant technical engineers long at home in the Communist Youth League. And so on.
Other contributions of a one slide Summary all welcome.
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