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The Party secretary of the Beijing Daily was ousted as political payback after undermining the leadership earlier this year.
In the stubborn opacity of Chinese communist politics there are few ways for people to know what is going on at the highest levels of power. But for decades, there has been a pretty reliable bellwether: the front page of the newspaper.
