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Xi Jinping has zombified the Chinese Communist party

25 October 2022

12:10 AM

25 October 2022

12:10 AM

In the run up to China’s National Party Congress, there were whispers that a high level official in state security had been wiretapping the President. After all, why else would Sun Lijun, previously the vice-minister of public security, have been sentenced to death for taking bribes that others got much lighter sentences for?

But if Sun was wiretapping Xi Jinping, who was behind him? Wishful speculation abounded, often from overseas observers.

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