Xi Jinping to Consolidate Even More Power
Commentary
The upcoming National People’s Congress (NPC) in China, an annual ceremony of homage to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its leader, and the rubber stamps it liberally uses to approve all CCP policies, will fill screens around the country starting Sunday.
The NPC will implement “the biggest government reshuffle in a decade as Xi Jinping tightens control” according to Reuters.
Xi already stacked the CCP’s top echelons with his loyalists in October, when he cemented a third term that amounts to an emperorship. It boggles the mind to think how he could accrue yet more power.
But on Sunday, Xi is expected to execute another wide-ranging and intensive reorganization. Decision-making over broad swathes of security, technology, finance, and culture will be redirected from regime bureaucrats to the CCP, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal….