Chinese leader Xi Jinping is poised to take advantage of the 20th Congress of the Chinese Community Party (CCP) scheduled for this fall, and to use the idiosyncrasies of the communist regime’s top-down structure of autocratic governance to further enhance his power, said panelists at a virtual hearing of a U.S. Congressional advisory body. At the twice-in-a-decade Party meeting, Xi is widely expected to launch an unprecedented bid for a third term in power. While both ideology and personal ambition play huge roles in driving the moves of CCP officials up to and including Xi, the nature of the regime in Beijing has evolved over time, in the view of Joseph Fewsmith, a professor of international relations and political science at Boston University. “The CCP is a hierarchical party structured along Leninist lines, meaning that it follows democratic centralism,” Fewsmith said during a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission …
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