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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 15:53 UTC

Tag: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

  • Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

    Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy

    Communist party secretary general, Xi Jinping waves to the crowd

    By Yvan Bennett and John Garrick (*) – Aside from fake snow and COVID-19, the Beijing Winter Games are controversial for many reasons. They are a potent political symbol of the Chinese state’s ambitions and authority. Held just a year after the triumphalist 100-year anniversary of the Communist Party's founding, General Secretary Xi Jinping is using the Olympics to showcase to the world that China is powerful and on track to fulfill its Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.

  • Sunday, October 29th 2017 - 11:51 UTC

    Xi supreme for the next five years, but his clout planning looks far beyond

    Xi said his new team must deliver the first centenary goal of becoming a moderately prosperous society by 2020, and a modern socialist country by 2050.

    President Xi Jinping has unveiled a new slate of top leaders that shows he reigns supreme in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He not only placed people loyal to him in key positions, but also defied convention in not naming potential successors to the party's top decision-making body, the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC).