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BEIJING: Dressed in matching navy windbreakers and flanking President Xi Jinping, China’s freshly appointed top leadership this week made their first group outing to the Communist Party’s “holy land”.

Bangkok Post

China ramps up lockdowns, Covid restrictions across country

BEIJING: Investors hoped China would ease its stringent Covid Zero strategy once the pivotal Communist Party congress cemented President Xi Jinping’s grip on power. Instead, the opposite seems to be happening.

The Times of India

Even Now, Standing Supreme, Xi Has Limits to His Power

The very loyalists that have facilitated Xi Jinping’s rise could yet provide a constraint to his ambition.

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The increasingly Leninist Xi Jinping must be talked down from confrontation

The coronation of Xi Jinping at the 20th Party Congress was both expected and dramatic. It makes him the most powerful leader of Communist China since Mao. He could be there for another 10 years at least.

Evening Standard

Ten ways China has changed under Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping emerged from the 20th Communist Party Congress with a precedent-breaking third leadership term and a Politburo Standing Committee made up entirely of loyalists, cementing his place as China's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.

Reuters

Russia, Hungary congratulate Xi Jinping on third term as EU and US remain silent

China's economy grew at a faster pace than forecast in the third quarter of 2022, but investors have reacted with alarm to President Xi Jinping's sweeping new powers over the ruling Communist Party.

Radio France Internationale

Biden team works on setting up Xi meeting as Chinese leader tightens grip

WASHINGTON — The U.S. won’t change its stance toward China as a result of Xi Jinping seizing more power in a key Communist Party congress, with advisers still trying to set up a meeting between President Joe Biden and the Chinese leader, U.S. officials said.

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No women named to China's powerful Politburo for first time in 25 years

The new leadership is also packed with Xi loyalists.

Axios

Tories turning UK into ‘sick man of Europe,’ says top party donor OLD

Economy ‘doomed’ because of Brexit, says Guy Hands

The Independent UK

Penny Mordaunt’s Tory leadership race withdrawal statement, in full

Penny Mordaunt has withdrawn from the Tory leadership race, meaning Rishi Sunak becomes the next Tory Party leader and Prime Minister.

Evening Standard

Who are the men now ruling China? Meet the members of Xi Jinping's powerful Politburo Standing Committee

Chinese President Xi Jinping has unveiled his seven-member Politburo Standing Committee after securing a third term as party leader on Sunday. This is what we know about the seven men on the country's highest decision-making body.

ABC News

All Xi’s men: Takeaways from China’s historic Communist Party Congress

The 20th session of the Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing ended Sunday with Xi Jinping securing an unprecedented third presidential term. That was the set piece, arranged for maximum political ends. The real story though was the unscripted dramas – the men who rose and fell in the party’s…

France 24

Ninth Circuit Refuses to Quash Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena for Kelli Ward's Cell Phone Records

A Ninth Circut panel split 2-1 over whether First Amendment concerns should prevent congressional investigatos from obtaining cell records for Arizona's Republican Party Chair.

Reason

Rishi Sunak enters race to replace Liz Truss as UK PM

His candidacy comes as reports suggest former PM Boris Johnson could be joining the race.

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Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak officially enters race to be Prime Minister as Johnson unity talks break down

Rishi Sunak is now the frontrunner to be Britain's Prime Minister within days after he already won the 100 backers he needed to get on a ballot of Tory members

Reuters

China's next premier Li: A Xi loyalist who oversaw Shanghai lockdown

Li Qiang, who oversaw Shanghai's grinding two-month COVID-19 lockdown this year as party boss of China's commercial hub, is on track to become China's next premier after President Xi Jinping unveiled a new governing body packed with loyalists.

Al Jazeera

Who’s on China’s new Politburo Standing Committee?

The elite committee was appointed following a week-long Congress of the governing party.

Axios

Xi Jinping secures 3rd term as China's Communist Party leader, further concentrating power

China's strongman leader is likely to continue confrontation with the West.

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Al Jazeera

China’s Communist Party endorses Xi Xinping’s ‘core’ leadership

President Xi Jinping is now all but certain to be unveiled as general secretary for an unprecedented third term.

The Independent UK

Could Boris Johnson become prime minister again?

He only left No 10 last month but, it seems, Liz Truss’s downfall has opened the door for a potential comeback

The Conversation

Friday essay: George Orwell is everywhere, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the number of attendees at the president’s inauguration. When pressed on why Spicer would “utter a provable falsehood”, Conway said that Spicer was offering “alternative facts”.

ABC News

Who is Xi Jinping's wife? Meet Peng Liyuan, the famous folk singer who helped pave the Chinese president's path to power

A lonely divorcee, Xi Jinping met Peng Liyuan, when he was 33. The famous and well-connected singer would change everything for the ambitious young politician.

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Four candidates running for Minnesota state auditor on Nov. 8

Incumbent Julie Blaha (D), Ryan Wilson (R), Will Finn (Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota), and Tim Davis (Legal Marijuana Now Party) are running for Minnesota state auditor on Nov. 8, 2022.

Dynamite News

BJD Expels Dhamnagar Rebel Ahead Of By-Polls

In the midst of the election campaign for the Dhamnagar assembly by-poll, the ruling Biju Janata Dal Wednesday expelled former MLA Rajendra Das, from the party for "anti-party activities". Read more on Dynamite News:

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The 20th Party Congress and the Crowning of Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s maneuverings to ensure his personal domination in the CCP, long in the planning, threaten to upset a bedrock of the durability of the party.

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