CCP’s Purge Continues as Party’s Top Political Meeting Concludes, Key Command Organs Remain Incomplete
Xi intends to hollow the authority of the top committees while consolidating his own power, but the continued purge could bring down the regime, analysts said.
TL;DR
- The CCP announced a large-scale purge of top officials after the Fifth Plenum.
- 33 out of 34 members of the CCP's Central Committee were expelled.
- Several high-ranking officials from the military-industrial sector were among those purged.
- Key command organs remain incomplete.
- Analysts predict Xi Jinping's purge of disloyal officials will continue.
- Concerns exist that the ongoing purges could lead to the sudden collapse of the communist regime.