News Analysis Amid the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), state-run media recently called on 70 million CCP members to remain loyal to the Party and rehashed the historical struggle of the Party by pointing out traitors such as former senior CCP leaders Wang Ming and Zhang Guotao. It’s believed that this is an insinuation of political factions threatening Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s rule. On June 24, Beijing’s top watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), published an article called “The Origin of the Four Principles of Deference” on its website. As stipulated in the CCP Constitution, the four principles are: individual Party members defer to Party organizations; the minority defers to the majority; lower-level Party organizations defer to higher-level Party organizations, and all organizations and members of the Party defer to the National People’s Congress (China’s rubber-stamp legislature) and the Central Committee of the Party (top …