Xi Jinping, China's leader-in-waiting, has a lot on his plate. Politicians in Hong Kong say that among many tiresome bu reaucratic chores before he set off to receive tribute in America was chairing a "co-ordinating committee" on Hong Kong and Ma cau affairs. Hong Kongers were watching closely, looking for the white smoke over Beijing that would identify their next leader, to replace the outgoing Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, a civil servant un der British colonial rule, who in 2005 became Hong Kong's sec ond post-colonial "chief executive".
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