Xi Jinping's Party History Resolution

China's strategies group has been telling its clients for at least the last year to expect exactly this sort of a disruptive outcome. We saw no real signs of serious opposition to Xi Jinping you know, we talked about it on a previous podcast episode in the spring. There was a lot of speculation that pushback from Xi Jinping's supposed factional rivals over his policy mistakes like supporting Putin in the war in Ukraine would mean he would have to compromise on personnel appointments. The exercise of raw power was going to be a better framing for understanding the outcomes than inherence to these norms but in my mind I thinkXi Jinping himself made it pretty clear to us early on that this was what he intended to do