China’s new leadership will be born How will Xi Jinping “deploy troops”?
In days, new allies and cronies of Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to take over senior government posts at the National People’s Congress. Analysts believe that this will mark the further concentration of decision-making power in the hands of Xi Jinping.
Some analysts believe that under Xi Jinping’s rule, this “self-centered” ruling situation will increase the possibility of misjudgments in decision-making and policy mistakes. Just as its strict new crown “clearing” policy triggered Beijing’s “Sitongqiao incident” and “blank paper protests.” This is a rare group protest in public since the “June 4th” in 1989, and made a political appeal to criticize the top leaders of the CCP.
At the “Twentieth National Congress” of the Communist Party of China last year, the “Xi faction” took control of the actual decision-making body of Chinese politics: the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the NPC and CPPCC decide the leadership of the new government, will Xi Jinping be more willing to delegate power because he trusts his team members, or will he continue to hold power alone? There is no answer yet.
What is certain, however, is that following last year’s 20th National Congress, when the new Politburo Standing Committee strode onto the rostrum, it marked the arrival of an era of no dissent among the leadership.
(Correction: At 3:07 in this film, “Director of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China” should be “Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China”.)
