Age is no barrier
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The newly elected, 24-member Politburo contains two faces we didn't expect to see there:
Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi
Why not? They’re too old. (We're not being ageist, it's the "rules.")
Since 2002, unwritten Party rules...