Xi Jinping emphasized party discipline at a key political meeting in China.
A four-day plenum of Chinese Communist Party leaders began in Beijing, aiming to tighten party discipline and prepare for leadership changes.
- The Central Military Commission was reduced to two members after the dismissal of two generals.
- Roughly 300 members of the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee were in attendance at the fifth plenum.
- Xi has conducted a fourteen-year anti-corruption drive.
- President Xi Jinping and top Communist Party members will meet in Beijing.
- State media stated the meeting aims to tighten discipline within the party ranks.
- The Communist Party started a four-day conclave.
- Chinese disciplinary bodies sanctioned 412000 individuals in the first half of 2026.
- Xi Jinping pledged to eliminate corruption within the Communist party when he took power.
- 16 of the 33 expelled members belong to the military.
- The main anti-corruption body sanctioned 680,000 people in the party apparatus in nine months.
- The total number of members removed under Xi's third term reached a record 51.
- Chong Ja Ian stated the anti-corruption campaign is an effort to consolidate authority.
- Kerry Brown said the plenum will present Xi as in control.
- Only 17 of the 44 military representatives elected to the Central Committee in 2022 remain formally in office.
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