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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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She's China - What's Different?

The 20th party Congress was held in October. That's the annual five year meeting of the Communist Party where they select the new leadership. And at this party Congress, Xi Jinping had, you know, the previous one in 2017, he made a lot of strides for consolidating power. He seems to have consolidated power among the important committees in the CCP such that there's a general sense that this is the most powerful Chinese ruler since at least Deng Xiaoping maybe earlier talk a little bit about from the perspective of the top how she has consolidated control and what how she's China might be different than say China 10 years ago.

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