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BEIJING -- President Xi Jinping on Sunday will unveil his new inner circle, a lineup of loyalists expected to carry out his orders after he paved.

Today, we were given an unexpected detail. In the middle of today's session of the 20th Communist Party Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was ...

Unfortunately, the speculation and rumormongering about Hu are a product of the secrecy of the party itself. The more important piece of information that has emerged from the congress has to do with personnel—the shuffling of party leaders into the elite decision-making bodies: the party’s Central Committee, Politburo, and Politburo Standing Committee. As of this writing, all signs suggest the party leadership will be completely dominated by Xi, in a way it hasn’t been in the first 10 years of his rule. Hu’s 10-year tenure has previously been described in the West as a “lost decade” for China, a period in which both and economic and political reform largely stalled. This would be dramatic indeed, but making such a gesture at the congress itself would be cruel and unnecessary. Still, as James Palmer of Foreign Policy noted [earlier today](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/22/china-xi-jinping-hu-jintao-ccp-congress/), Hu Jintao poses little threat to Xi at this point, given his age and declining stature in the system. During the remainder of the congress, Xi will install loyalists at the top levels of the party and claim a third term as general secretary. I have seen juicier interpretations still—such as that Hu was actively being purged at that very moment and would soon be charged with corruption and formally investigated by the party’s disciplinary apparatus. Having Hu literally pulled away could be a way for Xi to signal his dominance and send a message to other elites and the public. Hu, and his allies and protégés, represent a more technocratic, moderate arm of the party—one decidedly less repressive, and more open to the outside world. Hu’s feeble exit from stage is a sad symbol of the current trajectory of Chinese politics. In the middle of today’s session of the 20th Communist Party Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was abruptly escorted off stage.

Xi Jinping is expected to be granted a precedent-breaking third term at the end of a key political meeting in Beijing.

Li is the top official responsible for the development of the Greater Bay Area, Xi’s master plan for an integrated economic powerhouse of nine Chinese cities with Hong Kong and Macau. Xi and the six members of the new Politburo Standing Committee have just walked on stage. We should always remember their dedication and sacrifice.”

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is set to confirm President Xi Jinping for a historic third term as its leader and unveil members of its all powerful ...

The “Two Safeguards” assure Xi’s “core” status within the party and the party’s centralised authority over China. All future policies will be carried out according to his will,” the scholar said. It means he no longer faces any resistance or checks and balance in the PSC. Now, he is much better,” Xinhua said on Twitter. The new leadership will be unveiled at 04:00 GMT on Sunday when Xi is expected to walk into Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. His removal from the PSC, while not unexpected, signals Xi’s continuing tight hold on power in the world’s second-largest economy.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has formally stepped into his third term ruling China with an iron grip on power, as he revealed a top leadership body stacked ...

“The current situation is something unprecedented … we’re seeing a kind of re-centralised bureaucracy in China, which will definitely impact the future China’s economic foreign policy trajectory,” he said. Instead, Xi had filled the four open spots on the seven-member body with Xi long-time allies and proteges, Li Qiang, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi, clearing the path for him to rule for a third term with minimal internal resistance – and underlining that affinity to Xi trumps all else in China’s current political landscape.

The Chinese Communist Party leader broke with the traditional two-term limit, extending his authoritarian rule over the world's second-largest economy.

[erosion of civil liberties](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kong-xi-jinping-25th-anniversary-handover-rcna36274) in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, [rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/un-report-cites-possible-crimes-humanity-chinas-xinjiang-rcna45792) and [Russia’s war in Ukraine](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-martial-law-changes-russian-life-ukraine-rcna53394), as well as economic issues. “Politics is traditionally regarded as a male-dominated profession,” said Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center, a think tank in Washington. Women who rise to the vice premier level tend to be given “softer” responsibilities like health, education and sports. No woman has ever served on the Politburo Standing Committee. (The previous Politburo’s only female member, Sun Chunlan, retired at 72.) ban imposed this month on the [sale of advanced computer chips to China](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-aims-hobble-chinas-chip-industry-sweeping-new-export-rules-rcna51259) could constrain countries all over the world. (Chinese officials dispute the account.) The Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the limit in 1982 to prevent a return to a Mao-style cult of personality. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has tightened the party’s grip on the state and society, sidelined political rivals and That was underlined last week when a scuffle broke out during a protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Manchester, England, with one protester being Both men had been members of the previous Politburo Standing Committee, which along with the broader Politburo is nominally elected from among the Central Committee membership. He was followed in descending order of rank by the six other members of the new Politburo Standing Committee, China’s top leadership body.

Après une semaine de délibérations à huis clos, le 20e congrès du Parti communiste chinois (PCC) s'est refermé samedi sur un large remaniement de son Comité ...

le dirigeant a plaidé pour la continuité de ses politiques lors du discours d’ouverture du congrès. Les autorités n’ont quant à elles donné aucune suite aux sollicitations de l’AFP. Ils désigneront les 25 représentants du Bureau politique, l’instance de décision du PCC, ainsi que son Comité permanent. Visiblement contre son gré, l’homme de 79 ans, qui a présidé la Chine de 2003 à 2013, a été incité par des employés à se lever de son siège, situé à côté de Xi Jinping. Mais Xi Jinping avait ensuite surpris tout le monde en éliminant ses rivaux pour concentrer peu à peu tous les pouvoirs à la tête du parti et de la Chine, tout en menant une répression sévère contre toute dissidence. Le président chinois Xi Jinping doit être reconduit dimanche à la tête du Parti communiste, après avoir balayé toute contestation dans le pays et dans ses rangs, s’assurant ainsi de diriger la Chine pendant au moins cinq ans de plus.

L'actuel premier ministre Li Keqiang ne figure pas dans la composition du nouveau Comité central.

« Hu Jintao avait insisté pour assister à la séance de clôture […] malgré le fait qu'il avait dû prendre du temps pour récupérer récemment. Lorsqu'il ne s'est pas senti bien pendant la séance, son équipe, pour sa santé, l'a accompagné dans une salle adjacente pour qu'il se repose. Âgé de 69 ans, il peut donc en théorie présider à vie la République populaire. Ce groupe de 205 personnes, dont seulement 11 femmes, une liste longuement égrenée à la télévision d'État, doit se réunir dimanche pour la première fois. Xi Jinping sera très vraisemblablement reconduit au poste de secrétaire général de sa formation politique. Osez vous battre pour la victoire, a lancé d'un air triomphal Xi Jinping à l'issue de la cérémonie de clôture du congrès de la formation politique au Palais du peuple à Pékin, un bâtiment de style soviétique à la décoration intérieure dominée par le rouge.

Premier Li Keqiang, China's No. 2 official, is among four of seven members of the nation's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee who will not be ...

In his remarks, he said the party, which marked its 100th anniversary last year, is still in its prime. Those percentages were roughly the same as in the last Central Committee. Hu, 79, spoke briefly with Xi, whom he had been sitting next to in the front row, before walking off with an assistant holding him by the arm. Only Central Committee members can serve on the Standing Committee. There was no official comment. BEIJING — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, the nation's No.

Chinese Communist Party elects Xi Jinping as its general secretary for a precedent-breaking third term.

Shanghai Communist Party chief Li Qiang followed Xi, meaning that he is likely to succeed Li Keqiang as premier when the latter retires in March. Xi introduced the new lineup, walking at the head of the group as he lead them onto the stage at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to meet reporters. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elected Xi as its general secretary for a precedent-breaking five-year term on Sunday, tilting the country decisively back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among its elites.

Li Qiang, party secretary of Shanghai, walked out second behind Xi at a meeting with press on Sunday. Li is a known Xi loyalist and oversaw stringent Covid ...

Xi had set the stage for an unprecedented third, five-year term as president with constitutional changes in 2018. "We expect that policy focus will not be on launching new stimulus, but on implementing the existing policies and letting them take effect," Pang said. He said China could not develop in isolation from the world, but that the world also needs China. [achieve "national rejuvenation." Top-level economic policy in China is largely set by Politburo members. [affirmed China's greater focus on national security and "high-quality" growth.](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/16/chinas-xi-downplays-need-for-rapid-growth-proclaims-covid-achievements.html) In fact, that shift away from high-speed growth of past decades means [China faces "a new situation for attracting foreign investment,"](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/17/chinas-new-growth-goals-require-a-change-for-attracting-foreign-investors-official-says.html) an official at the economic planner said. However, Li Keqiang has been an official face and leader of implementation in his role as premier and the head of the State Council, China's top executive body. State positions such as president and premier won't be confirmed until the next annual meeting of the Chinese government, typically held in March. - State positions such as president and premier won't be confirmed until the next annual meeting of the Chinese government, typically held in March. Outgoing Premier Li Keqiang had walked out second behind Xi at a similar meeting with press after the conclusion of the party's 19th National Congress in 2017. [Xi Jinping](https://www.cnbc.com/xi-jinping/) broke precedent Sunday by paving the way for his third term as president, and the likely appointment of a premier with no prior experience as vice premier. - Chinese President Xi Jinping broke precedent Sunday by paving the way for his third term as president, and the likely appointment of a premier with no prior experience as vice premier.

Il devient le dirigeant le plus puissant à avoir régné en Chine depuis Mao Tsé-toung, fondateur du régime.

le dirigeant a plaidé pour la continuité de ses politiques lors du discours d'ouverture du congrès. Malgré une concentration presque totale des pouvoirs, M. Visiblement contre son gré, l'homme de 79 ans, qui a présidé la Chine de 2003 à 2013, a été incité par des employés à se lever de son siège, situé à côté de Xi Jinping. Mais Xi Jinping avait ensuite surpris tout le monde en éliminant ses rivaux pour concentrer peu à peu tous les pouvoirs à la tête du parti et de la Chine, tout en menant une répression sévère contre toute dissidence. En une décennie à la tête du pays, Xi Jinping a réussi le pari de faire de la Chine la deuxième économie mondiale, dotée d'une des armées les plus puissantes au monde. Xi Jinping obtient un troisième mandat à la tête du Parti communiste chinois

The full membership roster of the new standing committee is Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi. The Party ...

Li was in charge of Shanghai during its [heavily criticized](https://www.axios.com/2022/04/12/shanghai-china-covid-lockdowns)lockdown earlier this year, making his ongoing position heavily dependent on Xi's support. [said](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/23/hu-jintao-not-feeling-well-when-he-left-china-congress-says-state-media)the former leader was not feeling well. [unexpectedly escorted out](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/22/former-chinese-leader-escorted-out-congress) of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress on Saturday. [amended](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-communist-party-amends-its-charter-strengthens-xi-power-2022-10-22/)to enshrine Xi as the "core" leader. Li and Wang were [Xi Jinping](https://www.axios.com/2021/04/06/global-capitalism-china-repression-uyghurs) secured an unusual third term as leader of the Chinese Communist Party, the country's most powerful position, after a weeklong [Party congress session](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/16/xi-jinping-china-communist-party-congress-third-term) that ended on Sunday, [according](https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/china-xi-jinping-communist-party-congress/card/xi-jinping-gets-third-term-as-chinese-communist-party-leader-w1eIar6VDgwVJb0uJ7Gv) to Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency.

It's official: Chinese leader Xi Jinping has secured a third term as general secretary of China's Communist Party, according to the state-run Xinhua News ...

He would trail only Mao Zedong, who was party chairman for more than three decades, and Jiang Zemin, who served as general secretary for 13 years over 2½ terms, and stayed on as the chairman of the party’s Central Military Commission for roughly two more years. Xi is set to become the third-longest-serving occupant of the party’s top political office. The lack of a clear successor also suggests that Mr.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has further cemented his absolute control over the ruling Communist Party, as a twice-a-decade national congress drew to a close ...

When Mr. Mr. The reason for Mr. In a speech to party members, Mr. Xi and Li Keqiang, before patting the latter, a former protégé, on the shoulder. The standing committee is due to be revealed Sunday, with all eyes on whether it includes anyone who can be seen as a potential successor to Mr. Xi and Li Zhanshu, chairman of the National People’s Congress of China, being helped up by a masked attendant after a brief discussion. As he is also under the retirement age, Mr. Wang, a former leader of Guangdong province sometimes seen as a reformist or “liberal” voice within the party, is not believed to be close to Mr. Wang had been suggested as something of a compromise candidate for premier, a sop to factions unhappy with Mr. His exit from front-line politics Mr. The party also approved a new, 204-member Central Committee, rubber stamping decisions that will have been made by Mr.

On Saturday, it became clear that Xi had shuffled premier Li Keqiang and reformer Wang Yang into retirement, so he could pack the politburo standing committee – ...

“Xi’s policy of putting ideology and national security over economic development will continue for the coming five or even 10 years, as he is eager to rule until the 22nd party congress in 2032, when he will be 79.” Instead he abolished term limits on the presidency, is packing the government with allies, and could potentially become leader for life. The congress, the most important gathering of China’s five-year political cycle, brings 2,400 delegates from all over the country together to rubber-stamp decisions taken by the party elite. The 79-year-old seemed confused and reluctant to leave his seat on stage at the Great Hall of the People when he was approached by an aide or official, who whispered in his ear and tried to lift him from his seat. The week-long meeting was planned with precision and paranoia, and Xi emphasised party unity throughout. The closing session of the 20th congress of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) ended a weekend of triumph for Xi that makes him China’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.

BEIJING — President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader in decades, increased his dominance when he was named Sunday to another term as head of the ...

2 member and Zhao Leji, a member of the previous committee, was promoted to No. The promotion of Li Qiang was especially unusual because it puts him in line to be premier despite not having experience as a Cabinet minister or vice premier. Some new Standing Committee members lack national-level government experience that typically is seen as a requirement for the post. Xi announced Li Qiang, a former Shanghai party secretary who is no relation to Li Keqiang, was the No. The party also named a seven-member Standing Committee, its inner circle of power, dominated by Xi allies after Premier Li Keqiang, the No. The official Xinhua News Agency later reported Hu was in poor health and needed to rest.

Xi unveiled as general secretary of ruling Communist Party, tilting China back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among elite.

Like Xi, Cai spent many years in Fujian province at the start of his career, and moved on to Zhejiang. Where it previously listed Taiwan alongside Hong Kong and Macau as a place with which to “build solidarity”. For the first time in 25 years the new politburo contains no women members where previously there was one, vice-premier Sun Chunlan, and has reduced in number to 24 from 25. “The party and country risk becoming a ‘one-voice chamber’ where only one voice will be heard. The long-speculated reappointment signalled Xi’s successful and overwhelming consolidation of power in Beijing, with retention of the role as chair of the military commission, controlling the People’s Liberation Army. It now only swears to “resolutely oppose and constrain Taiwan independence”.

China's re-elected leader Xi Jinping has revealed his choices for the Politburo Standing Committee - the Communist Party's top decision-makers.

China's former President Hu Jintao is escorted out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party's 20th National Congress as President Xi Jinping and ...

In his opening address of the party congress, Xi again praised his Covid-Zero policy as a “people’s war” that has prevented fatalities and protected lives, although he didn’t acknowledge the repeated city-wide lockdowns, food shortages and lack of medical supplies that resulted. Xi had rolled out his campaign for more affordable housing in 2017, which set off a wave of policies aimed at taming skyrocketing housing prices and reining in the excessive borrowing that had become common among Chinese property developers. And in a rare display of drama at an otherwise highly choreographed event, Hu Jintao, the 79-year-old predecessor to Xi, The elevation of Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang is particularly noteworthy and speaks volumes to Xi’s consolidation of power. Li is most well known for overseeing the bruising month-long lockdown of Shanghai earlier this year, which triggered widespread public anger and raised doubts as to whether he might still earn a much-coveted promotion. His appointment means that he will be in firm control of the world’s second-largest economy for at least another five years at a time when it increasingly finds itself on a collision course with the U.S.

Comparing Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong is "inane", scoffs Rebecca Karl, a professor of Chinese History at New York University.

"China today has no socialist characteristics" she says "The subordination of labour to capital is complete. It's hard to deny that millions of Chinese hold Xi personally responsible for the cruelty of China's grim lockdowns. "Everything and everybody got a cut, but it got out of control," he adds. As I prepared to leave China in 2008, the Soviet-era airport had given way to a glittering megastructure designed by Norman Foster. In 1992, Deng - who had remained China's "paramount leader" - declared that the party should allow "some people to get rich first". The word on everyone's lips was "xia hai" or "dive into the sea". By the time I returned in 1998 the whole country had taken to heart Deng's invocation "to get rich is glorious". "My first introduction to China was in the 1980s, when the debates about China's future were huge, significant, and consequential," Prof Karl says. He ran the Communist Party - and the country - from the republic's founding in 1949 until the day he died in 1976. Hardliners, led by Premier Li Peng, believed the students' goal was to overthrow the party, and wanted the protests quashed. The truth is Xi's path to power was far from inevitable. He is known, only half-jokingly, as the Chairman of Everything.

Le président chinois Xi Jinping a été reconduit dimanche à la tête du Parti communiste, s'entourant de fidèles alliés pour devenir le dirigeant le plus ...

L’agence Chine nouvelle a affirmé en anglais que Hu Jintao « ne se sentait pas bien ». Il va « beaucoup mieux » désormais, a-t-elle écrit sur Twitter, bloqué en Chine. Leur proportion a même reculé de 5,4 à 4,9 % au sein du Comité central. Il succèderait alors à Li Keqiang qui prendra sa retraite. Les dirigeants russe et nord-coréen, Vladimir Poutine et Kim Jong-un, lui ont envoyé leurs « chaleureuses félicitations ». Remerciant « l’ensemble du Parti pour [sa] confiance », Xi Jinping a promis de « travailler dur dans l’accomplissement » de ses « tâches ».

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

Xi’s commitment to annex and “re-educate” Taiwan were this week enshrined in the party constitution. Hu was escorted from the stage at the closing of the party congress on Saturday, apparently reluctantly, in an episode that sealed Xi’s pre-eminence. Hu Chunhua had been tipped as a prospective new PSC member, but Xi found no place for the 59-year-old who was perceived by some analysts as a potential threat to the leader. “Xi has reiterated several times that the performance indicators that matters above all in Xi’s new era is political loyalty,” said Sung. A decade of political purges, increased surveillance and tightened social control has resulted in the 69-year-old leader consolidating personal power to a level not seen since Mao Zedong. For the first time in 25 years there was no woman on the politburo; there has never been a woman on the highest seat of power the politburo standing committee.

The party's national congress wrapped with the Chinese president securing his position as leader for at least another five years.

Mr. Late Saturday, the verified Twitter account of China’s state news agency Xinhua said Mr. Xi and Mr. Wang is 67, and he and Mr. The CYL was once led by Mr. At 60, Mr. In recent years, Mr. He appeared confused and initially reluctant to leave the room, stopping briefly to speak to Mr. When Mr. Zhao has for the past five years run the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the body tasked with implementing Mr. Thompson said while some had seen the Shanghai lockdown as hurting Mr. What they all share is a track record of loyalty to Mr.

Le président chinois, Xi Jinping, a été reconduit dimanche à la tête du Parti communiste, s'entourant de fidèles alliés pour devenir le dirigeant le plus ...

L’agence Chine nouvelle a affirmé en anglais que Hu Jintao « ne se sentait pas bien ». En clôture de son congrès, le PCC a réaffirmé samedi le « rôle central » de Xi Jinping. Il va « beaucoup mieux » désormais, a-t-elle écrit sur Twitter, bloqué en Chine. Leur proportion a même reculé de 5,4 à 4,9 % au sein du Comité central. « Nous avons créé deux miracles : un développement économique rapide et une stabilité sociale à long terme », s’est-il félicité, après avoir obtenu un troisième mandat de cinq ans, par un Comité central largement remanié du Parti communiste chinois (PCC). [Vladimir Poutine](https://www.ledevoir.com/vladimir-poutine?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=hyperlien&utm_campaign=corps_texte) et Kim Jong-un, lui ont envoyé leurs « chaleureuses félicitations ».