Tag: Power Consolidation
How Deng Xiaoping Dismantled Mao’s Security Chief in 1978
Mao Zedong's personal security chief, Wang Dongxing, had spent thirty years as the most feared man in...
Reports Claim Former Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan Has Lost Freedom in Daily Life Due to Alleged
The political situation within the Chinese Communist Party is described as unpredictable and complex....
How Mao Zedong Used Personal Warmth to Remove Senior CCP Leaders
Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, developed a pattern that became familiar to...
How Jiang Zemin’s Mistress Network Ran China’s Shadow Government
Huang Liman, widely described by political observers and former insiders as a close associate of former...
Why Ye Jianying Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Other Marshals Were Purged in the February Countercurrent
On Feb. 11 and Feb. 16, 1967, senior Chinese Communist Party officials gathered at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai...
How the CCP Made Military Rebellion Structurally Impossible
By Fu Longshan From the outside, the question sounds crude but persistent. If internal power struggles...
China Has No Succession Law—Only Political Reckoning
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has never resolved...
Xi Lowers His Rhetoric at the Fifth CCDI Plenum
By Li Deyan At the recently concluded Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline...
Cracks in Xi’s Fortress: Military Purge and Propaganda Revolt Shake His Rule
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee concluded with...