Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has chosen an entirely new team after winning the historic third term through the 20th National Congress in order to lessen the likelihood of facing a political challenge.
This is because the top leader is likely to enact more hard-line policies in Beijing regarding the economy, foreign relations, and human rights.
The seven most significant figures in China now make up the new Standing Committee of the party, which is chaired by Xi. The six were hand-selected by the president and are fiercely devoted to him. According to Hong Kong Post, dissent has no place in this odd ‘democratic’ system. Senior leaders’ names that circulated in the months leading up to the Congress were not included in the final list.
They comprised Hu Chunhua and Wang Yang, two credible candidates for the standing committee. Both were completely barred from power despite having a reputation for being reasonably pro-reform and experimentation.
He was not included in the 25-person Politburo, but Wang, a former member of the previous Standing Committee, didn’t even make it onto the Central Committee list of more than 200 members, Hong Kong Post reported.
In the Communist Party of China’s Politburo Standing Committee, key advisers to Xi were promoted, but for the first time in years, no woman was able to secure a place in the top leadership position.
All of the selected members are weak political underlings with no family ties in order to lessen the likelihood that Xi will face a political challenge.