The Fourth Plenum concluded Monday. There were no announced personnel moves at the Politburo level, but the meeting did approve General Zhang Shengmin as a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, replacing He Weidong. Zhang has been and remains secretary of the CMC Commission for Discipline Inspection. There were also no signs of Xi weakness, or any of the coup scenarios being pushed by Falun Gong and dissident accounts. The Plenum Communiqué is a confident document. Now we wait for more details of the Proposals of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Xi’s explainer. Xi et al have a plan “to secure decisive progress toward basically achieving socialist modernization”, and they are preparing for a long struggle with the US.
Fourth Plenum communiqué; New CMC vice chair…
The Fourth Plenum concluded Monday. There were no announced personnel moves at the Politburo level, but the meeting did approve General Zhang Shengmin as a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, replacing He Weidong. Zhang has been and remains secretary of the CMC Commission for Discipline Inspection. There were also no signs of Xi weakness, or any of the coup scenarios being pushed by Falun Gong and dissident accounts. The Plenum Communiqué is a confident document. Now we wait for more details of the Proposals of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Xi’s explainer. Xi et al have a plan “to secure decisive progress toward basically achieving socialist modernization”, and they are preparing for a long struggle with the US.