CHINA-LEADERSHIP: SECRETARY GENERAL OF CCP CC'S POLITICAL AND LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (PLAC) LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN

A protege of Chinese President Xi Jinping and 60-year-old Zhejiang native, Chen Yixin, Secretary-General of the Party’s Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC), convened a meeting in Beijing on July 8 to launch a new nationwide “education and rectification” campaign. In a hard-hitting speech to officials attending the meeting, Chen Yixin said “We must scrape the bone to remove the poison” and “We must drain away from the filth and bring in freshwater.” He called for a "turbulent Yangqing style "Yan'an rectification", and soul-stirring Yangwei-style themed education strives to build a political and legal iron army that the party and people can trust, trust, and can rest assured". The campaign is initially planned to be in only five cities and four counties, but in early 2021, the campaign will go nationwide. The campaign will come to an end in 2022. 

(Comment:  It is anticipated the campaign will be thorough and result in the dismissal and arrests of numerous PLAC cadres. The campaign appears intended to secure for Xi Jinping full control over the law enforcement system, which is the one pillar of the Party-state where Xi Jinping has never fully consolidated control. The PLAC oversees China’s judiciary and law enforcement bodies.)






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