Experts Anticipate More Purges Targeting Top Officials Ahead of China’s Biggest Annual Political Gathering

The campaign is widely seen as part of CCP leader Xi Jinping’s broader strategy of power consolidation under the guise of fighting corruption within the party.

Chinese military delegates walk in a line as they arrive at the second plenary session of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 8, 2024. China's annual political gathering, known as the Two Sessions, convenes leaders and lawmakers to set the regime's agenda for domestic economic and social development for the year. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

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A few weeks before China’s key annual meetings, known as the “Two Sessions,” analysts saw signs of another wave of anti-corruption campaigns led by the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, potentially targeting top communist officials previously spared.