Wang Qishan, once one of Xi Jinping's closest deputies, is now a semi-black sheep in the CCP. What does the downfall of the revered economic reformer say about Xi's China?
Illustration by Luis Grañena
In mid-October, China’s most powerful officials were locked in intense backroom negotiations over who would join the elite Politburo Standing Committee at the upcoming Party Congress. Everyone who was anyone in the Chinese Communist Party was there.
But Wang Qishan, China’s vice president and once one of Xi Jinping’s closest deputies, was in Kazakhstan.
Wang Qishan and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, October 13, 2022. Credit: Press Office of the President of the Republi
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