Cai has suggested there were others in China’s communist party waiting for the tide to turn. Xi’s party has also bolstered its counter-campaign, asking party cadres and the people to back the President. Back home, President Xi’s challenges within the party run much deeper than just crushing dissent and silencing critics in China. “All they [cadres] can do is just repeat the same old bureaucratic, stereotypical talk,” President Xi once said, according to reports. For instance, he said, what happens to China’s Vice Prime Minister Hu Chunhua and PM Li Keqiang.

Source: Hindustan Times August 22, 2020 10:16 UTC