Chinese Communist Party ‘greatest existential threat’ to the US: Report

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has amassed many enemies within China due to his continued efforts to consolidate personal power, according to a new report. The success of Xi’s “dictatorial” concentration of authority has likewise relied on his ability to remove his opposition from power, according to the China Transparency Report, published by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. “There is no disputing the fact that [Xi] is a master in factional intrigue, building up cliques and elbowing aside, if not taking out, enemies from other factions,” the report says “Apart from arrogating major decision-making authority to himself and the high-level councils that he controls, Xi has redesigned regulations and working procedures within the party to suit his own interests.”...