Neil Thomas, a senior analyst for China and Northeast Asia at the Eurasia Group, said that besides Cai, only one other Xi ally, Yang Xiaodu, was “helicoptered” from outside the Central Committee ...

Ms. Cai returned fire, accusing Mr. Xi of undermining China’s prospects ... but the government’s handling of the death of Lei Yang, a Chinese environmentalist who died in police custody ...

Other new members include Cai, 66, party boss of ... not necessarily mean that Xi will become an omnipotent supreme leader and can do anything,” said Yang Zhang, an assistant professor at ...

Seeing the dismissal of charges against the police involved in Lei Yang’s case and censorship of online outrage, Cai felt the CCP already showed it “had no sense of right and wrong.” Two years later, ...

ChinaFile, the new online magazine of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, has translated a rare story from the Chinese newspaper, Southern Weekend: Cai Yang came to Xi’an from his hometown of Nanyang ...

In an unexpected development in China’s political arena, Cai Qi, the chief of staff for Chinese President Xi Jinping, is rapidly gaining power, a move that contradicts the country’s ...

Cai Qi wields unusual clout for China’s No. 5 official. Not only does he sit on the seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, China’s most powerful body, but he also serves as Xi’s chief of ...

Wang is a trusted aid to Xi and is credited with helping formulate Xi's ruling philosophy. (Wang Huning and Wang Yang are not related.) Another key promotion went to Li Qiang, who took the No. 2 ...

Neil Thomas, a senior analyst for China and Northeast Asia at the Eurasia Group, said that besides Cai, only one other Xi ally, Yang Xiaodu, was "helicoptered" from outside the Central Committee ...

Cai, 66, was not on everyone's list for the elite Politburo Standing Committee, but he is seen as one of Xi's closest political allies, having worked with him for 20 years in the coastal provinces ...