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UNBELIEVABLE: Politburo standing committee - Caught on Camera

Xi Jinping's show: Who's who in China's new government

China has put the finishing touches on a sweeping leadership reshuffle that has been years in the making and puts trusted allies of leader Xi Jinping in key spots throughout the administration.

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Loyal and experienced, China's other top leaders take posts

With Chinese leader Xi Jinping receiving a norms-breaking third five-year term as president, the other six men who serve with him on the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee are taking up their new portfolios

The Independent UK

China's other top leaders bring loyalty to Xi, experience

Six men sit alongside Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, handling major portfolios from propaganda to corruption fighting

The Independent UK

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China's Xi solidified grip on power during tumultuous 2022

Xi Jinping secured an historic third leadership term in October, emerging as China's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong, bolstered by a Politburo Standing Committee stacked with allies and no successor-in-waiting to challenge him.

Reuters

China's Wang Huning, a backstage ideologue and political survivor

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President Xi Jinping: Who could replace him and what might it mean for the world

Disapproval of the leader is spreading as the population becomes angered by China's strict zero-Covid policy

Wales Online

Xi Jinping and the Paradox of Power

What Mao’s failures reveal about centralizing control.

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China's 'Wartime Cabinet' Is Complete: What Xi Jinping's Loyalists Mean For US Stocks, Investing, Chip Sector, Taiwan

Xi Jinping has been confirmed for a third five-year mandate as Chinese Communist Party general secretary. Were he to complete his third term, he would become the longest-running paramount leader since Mao Zedong.

Benzinga

Analysis-China's newly empowered Xi faces a daunting to-do list

China's Xi Jinping kicks off his third leadership term with more power than ever, but a mountain of problems to tackle, from a dismal economy to his own COVID-19 policy that has backed the country into a corner, and deteriorating ties with the West.

Reuters

Why Tricida Shares Dipped Around 95%; Here Are 73 Biggest Movers From Yesterday

Gainers Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: AGTC) climbed 62.4% to close at $0.39. Syncona disclosed that it will acquire Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation.

Benzinga

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

The new leadership is also packed with Xi loyalists.

Axios

Why Vaxcyte Shares Are Trading Sharply Higher? Here Are 63 Stocks Moving In Monday's Mid-Day Session

Gainers Vaxcyte, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCVX) shares jumped 65% to $33.96 after the company announced positive topline results from the Phase 1/2 clinical proof-of-concept study evaluating the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of VAX-24.

Benzinga

Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com And Some Other Big Stocks Moving Lower On Monday

U.S. stocks traded mostly higher, with the Dow Jones gaining more than 200 points on Monday. Here are some big stocks recording losses in today’s session.

Benzinga

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.

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On China's internet, only plaudits for the party and Xi

While financial markets judged the outcome of China's Communist Party Congress harshly on Monday, on China's internet the only permitted response has been full-throated support.

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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.

The Guardian - AU

Who is Li Qiang, the man poised to become China’s next premier?

Communist Party chief of Shanghai has been anointed as the second-ranking Politburo Standing Committee member thanks to his loyalty to Xi Jinping

France 24

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 Japan News/Yomiuri

Xi's firm grip on power foments discontent

BEIJING -- With the Chinese Communist Party's new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee packed with President Xi Jinping's close allies, dissatisfaction and concern within the party over the concentration of power in Xi appear to be bubbling under the surface.

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.

The Independent UK

Questions swirl after China's former leader Hu leaves event

Questions abound after former Chinese President Hu Jintao was suddenly escorted offstage

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.

Reuters

Ding Xuexiang: from Xi staff chief to ruling elite

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday made his chief of staff, Ding Xuexiang, one of the most powerful men in China, in a move party watchers say underscores the importance Xi puts on trust and loyalty.

The Guardian - UK

Who’s who in Xi Jinping’s China as leader cements power

An introduction to loyal Xi acolytes on politburo standing committee who will now shape Xi’s vision for China

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