CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE POLITICAL ANALYST QUESTIONS POLITBURO MEMBER CHEN MIN'ER NOT YET BEING ALLOTTED A PORTFOLIO
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In the latest (November 3) issue of the Sino-Japanese Political and Economic Review a political
analyst asked why Chen Miner has not yet been assigned a portfolio despite him being
overlooked for the PBSC, a Chinese political analyst said Chen Min'er was originally expected
to be one of the successors, but as a result, not only did he fail to become a member of the
Standing Committee of the 20th National Congress, but he also failed to become the Shanghai
Secretary as widely expected, and became an ordinary Politburo member. He attributed this to
the structural problems in the relationship between Chen Min'er and Xi Jinping. One reason
was that Chen Min'er was promoted to be Propaganda Minister before Xi Jinping arrived in
Zhejiang.
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