In March of this year, former Beijing party boss Cai Qi was given an additional position—director of the party’s General Office, which magnified his power to discipline all Chinese Communist Party (CCP), regime, and military officials except those in the Politburo Standing Committee. Cai’s new role is reminiscent of Kang Sheng (1898-1975), a merciless official…
ANALYSIS: The Rise of Cai Qi, 5th in the Party’s Politburo Standing Committee
‘In the Next Five Years’ Removed from China Social Media Amid Fears Of Recurring Zero-COVID Controls
The hashtag “In the next five years” has been removed from Chinese social media as fears grow over the wording of a media report on Beijing’s COVID strategies for the coming years. “In the next five years, Beijing will resolutely, unremittingly, do a good job in normalizing pandemic prevention controls,” the state-backed Beijing Daily originally…
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