Part of the reason for the hostilities between Xi and Kim is an ongoing factional struggle at the highest levels of the CCP
The Kim family is close to the influential faction of Jiang Zemin, the former CCP leader, and Xi’s chief rival
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The Kim family is close to the influential faction of Jiang Zemin, the former CCP leader, and Xi’s chief rival
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In 2016, the Chinese authorities arrested Ma Xiaohong, a Chinese businesswoman with ties to the Jiang faction, for supplying North Korea with materials needed for its nuclear program.
Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang informed a Japanese politician that China and North Korea are in an 'antagonistic relationship'
