g in China reports), and the general secretary of the Central Committee. Also approved are the Central Military Commissio

ally as the country enters the final run-up to the 19th party congress. There is now no ambiguity: China is under the firm leadership of the party’s Central Committee, with Xias its core, and alignment with Xi’s “four con- fidences” doctrine - in which officials are urged to be “confident in China’s chosen path, po

and activities. I defended her right to perform but challenged her to a debate about her outrageous political views. She declined because she was on the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Workers Party — a British Stalinist group — and the Party had to approve in advance everything she said in public. I then explai