New Analysis The Chinese idiom “everything under the sky submits to the one ruler” has been heavily stressed in recent years by Chinese regime media and Chinese leader Xi Jinping as he tries to build up his absolute authority with the help of several of his senior advisors, known as “The Gang of Fudan.” The gang is headed by Wang Huning, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee. Wang is a former professor and dean of the law school at Fudan University. Known in China as “the state advisor for three dynasties,” Wang has been the advisor for three generations of CCP heads including Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi. As the first secretary of the central secretariat of the CCP, Wang is in charge of ideology and propaganda and has played an important role in shaping Xi’s strategies and policies. Wang enrolled as …