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Vietnam ousts most senior officials in years as probes spread

Vietnam dismissed two deputy prime ministers — the most senior officials to be relieved of duties since 2017 — amid lengthy investigations driven by a campaign to clean up corruption and protect the Communist Party’s legitimacy.

Tribune News Service

Chinese women found their voice in 2022. Is anyone listening?

Chinese women found a new voice to demand change in 2022. The government’s tentative response suggests tensions may only deepen in the coming year.

Tribune News Service

Wang Tao: Key Takeaways From China’s Central Economic Work Conference

Stabilizing growth is the top priority, with measures to boost the real estate sector and a supportive tone for non-SOEs, foreign investors and online platforms

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Jiang Zemin: Leader who guided China’s rise to economic power

Under Jiang’s tutelage, China had its longest period of stable economic growth under Communist rule

The Independent UK

China to optimise epidemic prevention and control next year -state media

China should optimise epidemic prevention and control measures next year as it seeks to better coordinate policies with economic and social development, state media reported on Wednesday, after a meeting of the Communist Party's politburo.

Reuters

Northwest Region Appoints Youngest Provincial Leader in China

Shaanxi’s governor Zhao Yide has been chosen as the province’s new party secretary

Caixin Global

Xi Jinping and the Paradox of Power

What Mao’s failures reveal about centralizing control.

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China Appoints Youngest Provincial Party Chief in Fujian

Zhou Zuyi, minister of human resources and social security, takes over from newly appointed Politburo member Yin Li

Caixin Global

Was Hu Jintao’s removal from China’s 20th party congress suspicious or not?

Incident has split China watchers with some saying former leader was unwell and others it was political purge by Xi Jinping

The Guardian - UK

Biden team works on setting up Xi meeting as Chinese leader tightens grip

WASHINGTON — The U.S. won’t change its stance toward China as a result of Xi Jinping seizing more power in a key Communist Party congress, with advisers still trying to set up a meeting between President Joe Biden and the Chinese leader, U.S. officials said.

Tribune News Service

No women named to China's powerful Politburo for first time in 25 years

The new leadership is also packed with Xi loyalists.

Axios

Factbox-China's new political elites and their connection to Xi

Xi Jinping on Sunday secured a third term as leader of China's ruling Communist Party and unveiled a new leadership team dominated by his allies, including the entire seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, which he heads.

Reuters

Who are the men now ruling China? Meet the members of Xi Jinping's powerful Politburo Standing Committee

Chinese President Xi Jinping has unveiled his seven-member Politburo Standing Committee after securing a third term as party leader on Sunday. This is what we know about the seven men on the country's highest decision-making body.

ABC News

All Xi’s men: Takeaways from China’s historic Communist Party Congress

The 20th session of the Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing ended Sunday with Xi Jinping securing an unprecedented third presidential term. That was the set piece, arranged for maximum political ends. The real story though was the unscripted dramas – the men who rose and fell in the party’s…

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The power of one: Xi solidifies grip at party congress

China wrapped up its twice-a-decade leadership reshuffle on Sunday, with Xi Jinping securing a third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party and packing the new Politburo Standing Committee with allies.

The Guardian - UK

Xi Jinping chooses ‘yes’ men over economic growth in politburo purge

China’s president doubles down on ruling for life, excluding potential future leaders or factional rivals

Reuters

Beijing party chief Cai, Xi loyalist, vaults to top rank

Cai Qi catapulted to the top rung of China's leadership on Sunday, capping a late career rise that overcame a less than ideal stretch as Beijing's Communist Party boss.

Reuters

Li Xi gets graft-busting role on China's new Standing Committee

Li Xi, the Communist Party chief of the economic powerhouse Guangdong province, assumed two new titles on Sunday when he was elevated to the elite Politburo Standing Committee and put in charge of the party's influential graft-busting body.

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Al Jazeera

Who’s on China’s new Politburo Standing Committee?

The elite committee was appointed following a week-long Congress of the governing party.

The Independent UK

A look at the 7 men slated to lead China's Communist Party

China's ruling Communist Party has appointed a new all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, led by General Secretary Xi Jinping, who is serving a precedent-breaking third five-year term as party head

Reuters

Factbox-China's new elite Communist Party leadership

Xi Jinping on Sunday secured a third term as leader of China's ruling Communist Party and unveiled a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, which he heads, that will determine the path of the country's development in the next five years.

Reuters

Factbox-Who's in, who's out of China's new party Central Committee

Over 2,000 delegates to a twice-a-decade congress of China's ruling Communist Party in Beijing elected a new 205-person Central Committee on Saturday that will set the course of Chinese policymaking for the next five years.

Reuters

China's Premier Li Keqiang left off new party Central Committee

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and three other members of the elite Politburo Standing Committee of the ruling Communist Party were excluded from the newly elected Central Committee on Saturday.

Al Jazeera

Xi set to reveal China’s new senior leadership as Congress ends

Chinese president expected to be supported by the most loyal as he heads into an unprecedented third term.

The News Lens

The 20th Party Congress and the Crowning of Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s maneuverings to ensure his personal domination in the CCP, long in the planning, threaten to upset a bedrock of the durability of the party.

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