The Palladium: "What is singularly remarkable about Wang Huning is that he’s managed to serve [as] court philosopher to not just one, but all three of #China’s previous top leaders palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the…
Among the hints that the upcoming 6th Plenum in November will produce a third Resolution on Party History is that Wang Huning hasn't been seen much in public for the past several months.
N.S. Lyons describes #China's Wang Huning as someone who "much prefers the shadows to the limelight. An insomniac & workaholic, former friends & colleagues describe the bespectacled, soft-spoken political theorist as introverted & obsessively discreet." His workaholism shows
Here is Wang Huning when he was elevated to the Politburo at the 18th Party Congress in 2012; when he became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee in 2017; and then earlier this year. 
No more hinting: CCP Sixth Plenum dates announced, along with the anticipated Third Resolution on History of #China's Communist Party's Century of Struggle 中共中央政治局召开会议 讨论拟提请十九届六中全会审议的文件 中共中央总书记习近平主持会议 cnii.com.cn/sz/202110/t202…
The actual title of the new #CCP Central Committee's resolution on Party history is: "Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s Century of Struggle” 《中共中央关于党的百年奋斗重大成就和历史经验的决议》
The draft resolution-- the product of extensive consultation "with those in- & outside of the Party"-- interweaves the theme of the enduring "Never Forget the Original Aspiration, Keep the Founding Mission Firmly in Mind” (“不忘初心、牢记使命”教育活动) Campaign...
by asserting that the CCP "has faithfully fulfilled its original mission, united and led the people of all ethnicities across the country to paint a magnificent portrait in the history of human development on this vast land that is #China."
The news release suggests this new resolution is no mere victory lap for the #CCP: it's defiant, even truculent, in tone, claiming that it is the Party that allowed "the people of #China to stand up after being enslaved & bullied for more than a century in the modern era"
With an affirming nod to the "wolf warrior" discourse of recent months & years, it notes the #CCP has "increasingly consolidated #China's international position," linking this to the CCP's new theme of a century of historical struggle (suggesting also continued struggle ahead)
"The #CCP & the Chinese people solemnly proclaim to the world that, by virtue of their heroic and tenacious struggle, #China has made a great leap from standing up to getting rich and becoming strong...
"... and that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has now entered [a new stage] in an irreversible historical process." The themes of #China's nat'l unity, defiance against perceived resistance from the int'l community & the import of hardship & struggle predominate.
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