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Center-province tensions, legislative edition

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On Monday, Qiushi – the Party’s top journal – published excerpts of Xi Jinping’s speech to the central work conference on overall law-based governance, held in November.

Xi was unhappy with some local lawmakers (SCMP):

“Although Xi hailed [the 2015 amendment to the Legislation Law] deleg...