Wall Street Journal: China’s leaders ordered emergency measures to battle one of the country’s worst droughts in decades, which is threatening to damage nearly a fifth of China’s wheat harvest and millions of livestock. Underscoring the government’s concern, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao ordered the State Council, China’s equivalent of a cabinet, to make “all-out efforts to combat the severe drought,” the official Xinhua news agency reported Thursday. A farmer carries pails to …