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Three rising stars of the Chinese administration, Wang Huning, Li Qiang and Ding Xuexiang have been given space to voice new opinions within the Politburo Standing Committee, with President Xi’s consent.
This group of loyal Xi Jinping’s elites, formed from the time the president was CCP secretary for the region south of Shanghai, continues to gain ground in the key areas of the economy, security and propaganda.
General Li Wei, an intelligence specialist who trained in Xinjiang and is close to President Xi Jinping, is using new information sharing and training programmes to turn the People’s Liberation Army’s Strategic Support Force into a well-oiled intelligence machine.
President Xi Jinping is pressing the Chinese Communist Party to improve its capacity for dealing with the country’s most sensitive issues, including Tibet, Taiwan, patriotism among students studying abroad and military-civil fusion.
The group of senior officials gradually emerging as the new clique around Xi Jingping have one thing in common, they all attended the president’s alma mater, Tsinghua, in Beijing.
Following its second plenary session last week, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is now set to report back to Xi Jinping to explain the strategies it has chosen to deal with the campaign’s priority targets – finance and property.
In his third term, China’s president wants to consolidate his hold over his country’s military apparatus. To regain control over the politics of the People’s Liberation Army, Xi has chosen to drastically rein in political commissars, who have now been relegated to merely executing the party’s will.
Xi Jinping’s wife looks to be building a new group of ambitious young leaders around her. The group will face challenges, however, from other factions, which Xi wants to see competing with each other.
After winning backing in October for his plans to govern China until 2037, Xi Jinping has begun preparing a new generation of leaders to take up key positions in the Chinese Communist Party. This is a way of assuring himself of their loyalty.
Li Xi has been appointed to head the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection with the twin objectives of purging the army and the Communist Youth League.
Xi Jinping has selected six experts to help him guide the direction of the People’s Liberation Army. They bring to the table technical nous, battlefield experience and a deep understanding of Taiwan.
Only weeks before the Chinese Communist Party congress, China’s president has evicted the last remaining security officials from the public security ministry, the Gonganbu, close to former president Jiang Zemin.
Encouraged by the new governor of Xinjiang, Ma Xingrui, eight companies from the coastal region focused on strategic industries are in the midst of setting up operations in this Uyghur region.
At the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which ended recently, President Xi Jinping set out an ideological vision […]
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