The Communist Party 20th Congress will accelerate a huge personnel reshuffle throughout the party and the state apparatus, affecting key policymakers including central bank governor Yi Gang, Guo Shuqing, the chief bank regulator, and Liu He, a Vice Premier known as Xi Jinping's "economic czar". David Wilder talks to Senior China Economist Julian Evans-Pritchard about who might replace these influential reformist voices within the government, but also what it will mean to be a reformist under Xi's more centralised and authoritarian decision-making process. Plus, Group Chief Economist Neil Shearing discusses whether Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's defenestration marks an end to the UK's crisis.
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