British media reported that while Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China, is consolidating his power, the Chinese court political drama is also being staged. After Xi’s family’s army’s cronies have risen to higher positions in the Communist Party of China, new factions have emerged and compete with each other. that power.

The picture shows that at the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October last year, former Chinese President Hu Jintao was "invited" to appear in full view.

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[Compiled Yang Fuyi/Taipei Report] The British "Financial Times" reported this week that the Chinese court political drama is being staged, and new political divisions are forming at the top of the Chinese Communist Party; the upcoming two sessions (NPC and CPPCC) in March will confirm China's The appointment of personnel to key positions in the government of President Xi Jinping in his third term not only represents the completion of the consolidation of Xi’s power in the third term, but also represents the emergence of a new circle of factions among Xi’s military cronies after they have been promoted to higher-level positions within the CCP. Fight for power.

The Financial Times China correspondent Edward White (Edward White) reported on the 25th that most of these paramilitary officials of Xi's family are people whom Xi Jinping knew when he was young, or trusted officials who have worked with Xi Jinping for decades since the early days of his career. And a rising star who has pledged allegiance to Xi, the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.

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Wu Guoguang, who served as an advisor to former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and is now a senior researcher at Stanford University and the New York think tank Asia Society, wrote an analysis in the "China Leadership Monitor" journal, saying that "a new era of factional politics is unfolding" in China , he believes that Xi Jinping's status and authority as China's top leader is unlikely to encounter challenges within the top cadres of the Communist Party of China, "but factional competition among different groups of Xi followers has already begun to occur".

According to Wu Guoguang's analysis, four key groups of the Xi's military faction include officials who have worked with Xi Jinping in Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Shaanxi, and the other five groups include a group of officials from the military and industrial sectors with ties to the famous Tsinghua University in Beijing officials with ties to the Communist Party’s Central Party School, several officials with apparent ties to Xi Jinping’s wife, Peng Liyuan, and a group from the Communist Party’s security services.

Wu Guoguang pointed out that from a larger perspective, the rise of the military sector seems to indicate Xi Jinping's new economic and technological development strategy, which emphasizes the state's ability to promote technological progress and reduces the weight of the private sector in the Chinese economy.

Victor Shih, an associate professor of political economy at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), narrowed down the most important factional blocs to the one Xi formed when he was governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and was appointed as the party's powerful anti-corruption leader. Institutional members of the Northern Cadre Group.

The report said that Xi Jinping's cronies during his tenure as governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002 included He Lifeng, who was promoted to a member of the Politburo at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and was named as the vice premier of the State Council of China after Liu He retired this year. "The Czar of the New Economy"; Cai Qi, the new master of the CCP's propaganda and ideology; and Wang Xiaohong, China's Minister of Public Security.

The report pointed out that during Xi Jinping's tenure as Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary from 2002 to 2007, Li Qiang was already a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the number one candidate to succeed the next Premier of the State Council of China, as well as the new Guangdong Provincial Party Secretary Huang Kunming, China Chen Yixin, the new Minister of State Security.

However, the report noted that any faction forming within the top ranks of the Communist Party could draw the ire of Xi Jinping, who has cracked down on political opposition and threats to his rule, such as last year in the months before the 20th Party Congress, when former Chinese judiciary and public security Officials have been sentenced to long prison terms for being part of a "political gang" disloyal to the Chinese president.