The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is launching a campaign of “vigorous research and investigation” that engages the “whole Party” to find ways to resolve what it refers to as “major and deep issues” within the organization. Several commentators have suggested that the CCP’s revisiting a political movement used in the Mao era signifies the struggle that communist leader Xi Jinping and his team of loyalists face.
On March 19, the CCP issued a “Work Plan” for the entire Party to implement “in a vigorous manner.” The document seeks to mobilize the entire Communist Party to investigate and study problems that hinder the adoption of “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” and the implementation of the Party’s theory, line, principles, and policies….