20 Jul 2020

Security czar race heats up

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We are still over two years away from the next National Party Congress, which will be held in the autumn of 2022.

But the race to make it onto the Politburo is already underway.

Chen Yixin, current secretary-general of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC), is one to watch.

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