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Emotions run high at protest held after man 'attacked' outside Chinese consulate in Manchester

Signs were held aloft, displaying messages ranging from 'Expel China' and 'Free Hong Kong' to 'British Blood On China Hands' and 'Hang Xi Jinping'

Manchester Evening News

Xi's firm grip on power foments discontent

BEIJING -- With the Chinese Communist Party's new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee packed with President Xi Jinping's close allies, dissatisfaction and concern within the party over the concentration of power in Xi appear to be bubbling under the surface.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Who’s who in Xi Jinping’s China as leader cements power

An introduction to loyal Xi acolytes on politburo standing committee who will now shape Xi’s vision for China

The Guardian - UK

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Who’s on China’s new Politburo Standing Committee?

The elite committee was appointed following a week-long Congress of the governing party.

Al Jazeera

Xi Jinping is seduced by a vision of greater isolation. A mistake that will make China poorer

As the leader enters his third term, there are increasing signs that the country is turning inwards, replacing the outside world with cyber ‘reality’

The Guardian - UK

In Mao’s footsteps: Xi Jinping puts himself at core of China’s government

President would normally step down now after 10 years as leader, but he has abolished term limits and promoted his allies

The Guardian - UK

What the Hell Just Happened to Xi Jinping’s predecessor?

Xi Jinping’s predecessor was forcibly led away from the Party Congress.

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Women pushed even further from power in Xi Jinping’s China

Xi has revealed an all male politburo for the first time since 1997. The move erases one of the few steps women had made towards real power in Communist China

The Guardian - UK

Beijing Banner Protest Ripples Outward as China Maintains Silence

“It will tell future generations that even in the darkest of times, there are people who will stand up for themselves.”

The News Lens

Who is Xi Jinping's wife? Meet Peng Liyuan, the famous folk singer who helped pave the Chinese president's path to power

A lonely divorcee, Xi Jinping met Peng Liyuan, when he was 33. The famous and well-connected singer would change everything for the ambitious young politician.

ABC News

China using influencers to whitewash human rights abuses, report finds

Social media videos by people from the Uyghur community are part of a sophisticated propaganda campaign, thinktank says

The Guardian - UK

China’s decade under Xi Jinping explained in seven charts

Xi has overseen rapid economic growth and rising wealth, while spending big on the military, but inequality has widened has and a demographic crisis looms

The Guardian - AU

Senior Chinese diplomat involved in violence against protesters in Manchester, claims British MP

‘We cannot allow the CCP to import their beating of protesters, their silencing of free speech’

The Independent UK

The 20th Party Congress and the Crowning of Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s maneuverings to ensure his personal domination in the CCP, long in the planning, threaten to upset a bedrock of the durability of the party.

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The Guardian - UK

The Manchester consulate attack shows how China is flexing its muscles abroad

Hongkongers need reassurance from Britain that attacks on pro-democracy activists will not go unpunished, says activist Nathan Law

The Independent UK

UK demands explanation after assault on Hong Kong protester at Chinese consulate

Scuffles broke out outside the building on Sunday afternoon after 30 to 40 pro-democracy protesters gathered and put up posters.

Reason

Tiananmen Square: An enduring symbol of the Chinese Communist Party's illegitimacy

This week the Communist Chinese Party is holding a congress at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. The purpose of the congress is to cement Xi Jinping's genocidal, imperialist autocracy. This post explains the centrality of Tiananmen Square to the Chinese dictatorship, and to the Chinese…

ABC News

Fears Xi Jinping flaunting 'collective prosperity' in CCP Congress speech, signalling further winding back of economic reforms

Certain words have been singled out as experts dissect the meaning behind Chinese President Xi Jinping's "work report" speech to the CCP's 20th National Congress, where he is vying for an unprecedented third term.

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ABC News

As Xi Jinping made a bid for power, his charismatic rival Bo Xilai loomed. Then came a murder in a hotel room

As Neil Heywood lay dying from cyanide poisoning, he could not have known the plot to kill him would shake the Chinese Communist Party to its core and dramatically alter the rule of Xi Jinping.

The Conversation

China: Xi Jinping poised for a third term with no plans to relinquish power any time soon

It is a certainty that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will be confirmed in office at the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, currently being held in Beijing. At 69, Xi is also tipped to become the CCP chairman.

France 24

Women hit the political glass ceiling at China’s Communist Party Congress

Sun Chunlan, China’s “Iron Lady” and the only woman in the ruling party’s Politburo, is due to step down from her post at the 20th Communist Party Congress this week. There’s no guarantee that another woman will succeed her, providing yet another example of the systemic under-representation of Chinese women…

The Guardian - UK

Calls for UK response after protester attacked at Chinese consulate

Foreign secretary urged to take action after Hong Kong demonstrator punched and kicked in Manchester

ABC News

Zhang Gaoli makes first public appearance at CCP Congress since #MeToo post from tennis star Peng Shuai

The presence of China's former vice-premier at the significant political event shows his status is untainted by last year's sexual assault allegations, one expert says.

Al Jazeera

Is Xi Jinping China’s new Mao Zedong?

With Xi casting himself as a 21st-century Mao, China risks ‘arbitrary rule’.

Bangkok Post

Another Xi term sits well with business sector

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started on Sunday in Beijing, with Xi Jinping likely to be re-elected as the country's president during meetings behind closed doors at the Great Hall of the People.

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