Big Changes Loom as Xi Jinping Shapes Leadership

“President Xi Jinping is firmly in control of China’s twice-a-decade leadership reshuffle, which could see bigger-than-expected changes as he builds a new supporting team for his unprecedented third term,” the South China Morning Post reports.

“As many as four top positions on the Politburo Standing Committee could change hands and nearly half the Central Committee will be replaced.”

Bill Bishop on the message Xi delivered: “The report is a mixture of triumphalism, aspiration, a sense of besiegement and global ambition.”