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Politburo seeks to hold local officials accountable for economic policy implementation

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Officials who don’t get on board with Xi Jinping’s economic program could be in trouble.
On November 28, the Politburo met to review the two most recent rounds of discipline inspections.
Some context: The Party Central Committee regularly dispatches inspection teams to Party and state organs to ensu...



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