The summer meetings of senior leaders were unlikely to reveal leadership tension or hesitation. Xi Jinping seemed set on proclaiming himself ‘Chairman’, a symbolic crowning as lifetime ruler and sage to add to earlier elevation in the 19th National Party Congress (October 2017). Concerns about crime, Party-building and local governance were on the surface very routine, yet carry distinct overtones of hunkering down in the face of 2020’s adverse winds.
August: ramping up dual circulation
August: ramping up dual circulation
August: ramping up dual circulation
The summer meetings of senior leaders were unlikely to reveal leadership tension or hesitation. Xi Jinping seemed set on proclaiming himself ‘Chairman’, a symbolic crowning as lifetime ruler and sage to add to earlier elevation in the 19th National Party Congress (October 2017). Concerns about crime, Party-building and local governance were on the surface very routine, yet carry distinct overtones of hunkering down in the face of 2020’s adverse winds.