China’s Communist Party will hold one of its most-watched meetings in July, as analysts predict the political body will lay out reforms to aid in the country’s economic recovery.
China has spotlighted what it calls ‘new productive forces’ as the key to future growth, repackaging the familiar desire for home-grown innovation and technological development with new rhetoric laying responsibility for economic health at certain sectors’ feet.
This is the latest map showing connections between the Politburo Standing Committee – China’s most powerful leaders – and their Politburo colleagues, based on their official work history.
See which full members of the 20th Central Committee have links with those who sit at the very top – on the Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee.
The Communist Party does not accept any challenges to its monopoly over power. A way out is to intellectually formulate a non-electoral conception of democracy and propagate it to the world. But that comes with its own challenges