Chinese leader Xi Jinping is clamping down on the entertainment industry. More than 700 talent agencies in China have been shut down so far this year. According to commentators in Taiwan and China, the entertainment industry has close ties to CCP officials, and the showbiz storm reflects an unusually fierce factional struggle within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). More than 100 talent agencies were canceled in June alone, according to data from Chinese enterprise information website Tianyancha. On Sept. 2, the China Performance Industry Association released an announcement about “strengthening the self-discipline management of talent agencies,” which requires agencies to assume the responsibility for the [political] education and management of artists. As for artists who “lack bottom line awareness” and who are “insubordinate,” agencies need to terminate their brokerage services. Agencies that neglect their responsibilities … will be punished. On Sept. 10, the Association held an online meeting to issue …