The Good Die Young

Li Keqiang, China's de jure No. 2 leader for a decade, is no more. Li, who was forced into retirement this year after being sidelined at the Party congress last October, died suddenly of a heart attack early Friday. Natural causes, as it were. We should all assume that's true. I don't know the first thing about Li's health, and even if I did, I'm not a medical doctor. I assume even the keenest Communist Party observers possess no deep familiarity with the leadership's medical records. With th