nsibility for external affairs. As the chair of the Foreign Affairs Commission, Xi has overall authority on all aspects of China’s foreign relations. Wang Huning, the Standing Committee member responsible for Party affairs, ideology, and propaganda, Appendix 1 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020593 --- PAGE BREAK --- 135

angdong’s economy, so that it can move up the ladder of industrialization and pro- mote more knowledge-based, high-tech, low- polluting businesses. ‘Wang Huning, secretariat, is director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee. Wang is well known for provid- ing intellectual vision and soph