I would be looking for the composition of people in the Politburo standing committee. Right now, it's a seven-member committee, which largely consists of people who are followers of President Xi, but there are also two people who are not. I think most people predicted that you were going to have two semi-independent people so that President Xi wouldn't have a clean sweep.
In a sense, that is only symbolic, because we know that power has also been centralized, in effective terms, but I think the coming months, the months after the party congress, are actually more important. After the pageantry, after the big show, what are the policies that are going to be formulated on Xinjiang, on trade and from politics to economy to society?
I think that once the president becomes more confident of his power, of his grip on elite politics, he will be more confident in putting out the rest of the policies that he actually wants to implement. The next three months after the party congress I think are a very critical period.