News Analysis
A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) publication recently published a commentary stressing the need for members to stay loyal to a “centralized and unified leadership”.
The article in Red Flag Manuscript, a bimonthly political theory journal, also criticized some former chiefs for setting up another central government, a reference harking back to the Party’s earlier history.
Current political observers see the May 10 article as an indication that the CCP is seriously divided, with leader Xi Jinping’s power being constrained and dispersed.
The article began by stating that “a centralized and unified leadership” is the “supreme principle” of the Party, which is said to be bolstered as “a mutual political obligation” of all the cadres….