World News | How Xi Jinping is tightening his grip on China in key meetings

Beijing [China], March 7 (ANI): China’s outgoing premier, Li Keqiang, has struggled in his final year in office to position himself as an ideological rival to Xi Jinping. In his final major speech on Sunday, it was clear he had failed, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

The Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping are now at the center of the Chinese government’s efforts to consolidate power and unify the state with the party and the party with Xi.

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In an hour-long speech to the National People’s Congress in Beijing on Sunday, Li Keqiang mentioned Xi Jinping a record 17 times, up from five in his first speech in 2014.

Former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao did not mention outgoing President Hu Jintao once in his last speech in 2013. He was named twice in 2012 after nearly a decade in power.

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Repetition is useful in the opaque world of Chinese elite politics, where language is weighed and overshadowed by sublime metaphors. Again, omission.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Li praised “the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping as general secretary” in his introduction to the 2014 annual work report, which was detailed in the previous year. Xi Jinping is young and promising, but he still has a lot of competition because he has not eliminated all his opponents. Then he goes fast.

This social organization was “personally led by General Secretary Xi Jinping” in 2016, and “central leadership with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core” was realized a year later. This distinction has allowed Xi to elevate his ideas to the founding doctrine of the Communist Party, making any threat to Xi a threat to the party as a whole.

Five years ago, Li referred to Xi Jinping’s predecessors through their theories, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory. Today, there is only Xi Jinping Thought, the 515-page theoretical tome on China’s modernization that places the party and then Xi Jinping at the center of China’s economic, political and social development.

In practice, that means that by the end of this week’s National People’s Congress, many duties that might previously have been handled by state bureaucrats will increasingly be handled by party officials. One can get a sense of the scope of some of these changes in a country of 1.4 billion people by imagining the Labor Party (the National Secretariat, not the Legislator) overseeing the Attorney General’s Office and the Australian Taxation Office.

Niss Grunberg, chief analyst at the Mercator China Institute, predicts that Xi will seek to increase his influence in the Chinese government by appointing individuals to key positions in the People’s Bank of China, the National Development and Reform Commission and ministries. Science & Technology.

With the appointment of key Xi supporters in state institutions, a third president would be more certain the government would support his plans, he said.

“Administrative reorganization will shorten the shackles in financial policy and national security areas, further institutionalizing the party’s decision-making power.”

Alfred Wu, an assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, predicted that Xi would further limit the accountability of ministers in key positions. He wants to create interior, finance and economic councils. These teams will report to Xi Jinping himself. They are no longer just reporting to the minister, reading a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Wu believes that this layer will include some local authorities and members of the Politburo, mainly from the cabinet-level Standing Committee and below.

“The power will be concentrated more in his hands because he is a control freak. He can give orders to ministers after passing them on to his loyal partners,” Wu claimed, adding that he was the first and the others Just there to help.

The Sydney Morning Herald, citing sources close to Li, spent a lot of time trying to give the impression that he was responsible for decisions to restrain some of Xi’s worst instincts, such as cracking down on private technology, property developers and dictator Xi Jinping enthusiasm for the Covid-1 lockdown strategy.

Lee spent 26 pages in Sunday’s annual report on the past and just six pages on the year ahead. Li Keqiang can only put forward the “Government Work Suggestions for 2023” after resigning from office and entering retirement.

Chen Long, a partner at research firm Plenum China, said the study was likely created by the outgoing prime minister’s team, which had little influence over the future government.

The 67-year-old became prime minister a decade ago thanks to a deal Xi struck with former President Hu Jintao’s Communist Youth League.

Both have been defeated, leading to the removal of many of Xi’s policy restrictions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. (Arnie)

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