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Review Dec 01, 2022

China Review. 20th National Congress of the CPC

Raigirdas Boruta
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Summary
  • The overall leadership structure of the Communist Par- ty of China (CPC) remains unchanged, but the existing informal rules regarding the terms and the age limits were applied selectively.
  • Xi Jinping was re-elected as the general secretary of the CPC Central Committee (CC). This is already his third five-year term in office.
  • China’s most powerful institution, the 7-member CPC Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) is now stacked with Xi’s loyalists.
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Raigirdas Boruta

GSSC Associate Expert and Chief Policy Analyst at the Government Strategic Analysis Center (STRATA). Since 2021, he has been a PhD candidate at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. In 2023, Boruta was a visiting fellow at National Chengchi University in Taiwan under the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Taiwan Fellowship programme. He holds an MA in International Relations from Sichuan University, China, and a BA in East Asian Studies with a focus on China from the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. His research focuses on the foreign and domestic policies of China and Taiwan, as well as cross-Strait relations, with particular attention to the dynamics of China–ASEAN relations and the strategic competition between Beijing and Taipei in Central and Eastern Europe.