{"id":1709852,"date":"2022-10-25T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709852"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:04:49","slug":"3-takeaways-from-the-ccp-congress-where-xi-jinping-tightened-his-stranglehold-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-takeaways-from-the-ccp-congress-where-xi-jinping-tightened-his-stranglehold-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Takeaways From The CCP Congress Where Xi Jinping Tightened His Stranglehold On China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-takeaways-from-the-ccp-congress-where-xi-jinping-tightened-his-stranglehold-on-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709852&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) just concluded its 20th party congress. Out of close to 97 million party members, only about 2,300 were selected to attend this fanfare. The twice-a-decade event is an opportunity for the CCP to present its most senior leadership. The leadership composition, speeches, and an out-of-norm incident gave away clues about China\u2019s next moves. Here are three important takeaways.<\/p>\n<p> Comrade Xi to Emperor Xi <\/p>\n<p>Communist China\u2019s founder, Mao Zedong, remained the head of the party and the nation until he died in 1976. His successor Deng Xiaoping, determined to prevent a Mao-like dictator for life, instilled a new succession plan, which set a limit of two five-year terms for future party secretary and head of the state. The term limit for the head of the state was written into China\u2019s constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deng\u2019s plan worked for two decades, until Xi Jinping came into power in 2012. Xi had no interest in being bound by rules and norms set by others. Through a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that is still ongoing after 10 years, Xi has purged rivals, eliminated potential challengers (real or imagined), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/xi-jinping-china-anticorruption-11665925166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even put some of his closest allies on notice<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Xi placed himself in charge of almost every essential government body, which earned him the nickname \u201cthe chairman of everything.\u201d Xi also stamped out any possibility of a military coup by reorganizing the People\u2019s Liberation Army and installing his most trusted allies in key positions. In 2018, Xi eliminated the constitutional term limit for the head of the state and signaled that he intended to rule for life, as Mao and all ancient Chinese emperors did.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 20th party congress was seen as a coronation, marking comrade Xi\u2019s end and emperor Xi\u2019s beginning. Xi began the weeklong meeting by delivering a more than two-hour speech to defend his job performance in the last decade. In truth, under his watch, China\u2019s economic growth has significantly slowed and human rights abuses have worsened \u2014 his genocidal policy against Uyghur Muslims has drawn international condemnation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2022\/09\/28\/how-global-public-opinion-of-china-has-shifted-in-the-xi-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public opinion<\/a>\u00a0of China and Xi has deteriorated globally, mainly due to the poor handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and Xi\u2019s aggressive foreign policy, including his militarization of the South China Sea. But according to Xi, his first decade\u2019s rule was a success.<\/p>\n<p>Xi concluded the party congress by presenting a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-63339821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new seven-person standing committee<\/a>\u00a0(the equivalent of a cabinet), which he staffed with officials whose best quality is their loyalty to him. He forced out Premier Li Keqiang, a potential rival. The most notable person Xi elevated to the committee is Li Qiang (no relation to Premier Li), currently the Communist Party secretary of Shanghai. Many people initially thought Li Qiang\u2019s political career was over after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/02\/chinas-inhumane-covid-lockdowns-became-a-wake-up-call-for-some-chinese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his disastrous handling of Shanghai\u2019s Covid lockdowns<\/a>. Li Qiang\u2019s elevation to China\u2019s second-most-powerful position signals that loyalty, not competency, will be rewarded at emperor Xi\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Li Qiang\u2019s promotion and Xi\u2019s self-congratulatory speech indicate that emperor Xi plans to double down on his failed policies, including \u201czero Covid,\u201d which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After cementing his power at the party congress, Xi Jinping has shown he is willing to get what he wants by any means necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1709855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}