WARNING: INSIDE BASEBALL ON CHINESE POLITICS, THOSE NOT INTERESTED SHOULD CHANGE CHANNELS NOW! There is increasing speculation ahead of the opening of the 17th Communist Party National Conference on October 15th that the fierce factional struggle now going on behind the scenes may result in the elevation of the new Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping into the hallowed ranks of the nine-member Standing Committee of the Party's Politburo, the group that actuall......