Published: November 5th, 2021,
Last updated: November 5th, 2021
For China observers, a plenum of the Central Committee is like a small celebration every year. The word alone confirms that we are still dealing with a system whose structures were once shaped by Lenin. For all intransparency of China’s political processes, this at least provides some safe guessing. When the CC convenes to make significant decisions, then significant decisions are to be expected. And things kick off again on Monday, with the sixth and final plenum of the current CC. Michael Radunski analyses which signals might already give away China’s ideological direction. And it doesn’t make Xi Jinping seem not particularly modest.