China Voice: For political slogans, drill, baby, drill

which refers to "comprehensively" building a moderately prosperous society, deepening reform, advancing the rule of law, and strictly governing the Communist Party of China -- has been echoed across the Party, government and military echelons.

Calling it a victory may be premature, as Xi has incorporated rich content into the Four Comprehensives and there is still much to learn. But an inability or lack of appetite to digest the concept, as some Western reports have shown by treating them as cliche, may cause them to disconnect from the theme of Chinese politics.

The Economist queried "when the party is going to stop trying to reduce complex issues and policy debates to slogans you can count on the fingers of both hands". On that, we have no definite answer. However, if such complex issues can be summarized with a few fingers, helping people better understand them, what's the problem?

By the way, we would also like to note the increasing soft touches in recent Chinese political communications. For the leadership, from their appearing in cartoons, to their uttering of Internet buzzwords - the word of the current legislative session is Renxing - that are hugely folk-popular, their choice of words would be everything but, well, Renxing. Endi