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Attendants wait to lead delegates to small group discussions of the draft of the anti-secession law during the second plenary session of the National People's Congress, or parliament, on March 8, 2005 in Beijing, China. Cancan Chu/Getty Images
A recent article in a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) magazine quoted the party leader expressing dissatisfaction with officials’ passivity and inactivity. Analysts see this as a sign of “lying flat,” or passive resistance to Xi Jinping’s growing centralized power within the party.
