07 Jan 2022
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Politburo study sessions. Trips to Yan’an. The CCTV New Year’s gala.
There’s an almost endless list of events on China’s political calendar to get the juices of any China watcher flowing.
But surely none more than the once-ever-five-years Party Congress.
We’ve been banging on about the 20t...
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