Jiang faction

Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech emphasizing the role of Marxism and “socialist core values” — apparently backtracking on earlier indications that he would move the country towards greater reform.

China’s former security boss used to run the court system that will now try him.

The “anti-corruption” campaign that investigated former Chinese Communist Party security chief Zhou Yongkang is expected to continue, likely taking down more former members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo.

A senior Chinese propaganda official was removed from his post shortly after his jilted mistress posted a detailed account of their affair online.

The usually somber Hu kept smiling at a reception, while the rest of the Standing Committee members were gloomy.