A look back at Xi Jinping's Fujian years suggests a remarkable degree of consistency in his tack and dedication to defending the Party from threats, starting from his response to 1989 protests in Ningde washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/… w archive sleuth @evadou (1/5) In contrast to some other strongmen, he concentrated power by melding personal authority with expanded but long-standing instruments of Party control. The National Supervisory Commission, for example, allows Xi to "compel consent" from colleagues, said @lingli_vienna (2/5)

On an official tour of the new CCP museum. First question: why was the word “history” dropped from the English name? Starts with scene setters: a digital scroll placing the party’s establishment as a part of Chinese dynastic history and the humiliation of the opium wars.

Before mass internment camps, before schools for orphaned kids, before forced labour factories, Chinese authorities came for the authors of Uighur-language school books. On how language, education and culture are at the core of China's Xinjiang crackdown: ft.com/content/485081… Earlier this year, when I started reporting on cultural restrictions on Uighurs in Xinjiang, I heard a lot about a case of textbooks that the authorities had deemed "problematic," leading to the arrest of dozens of Uighur intellectuals. 1/