A series of incidents has experts speculating that deep divisions could exist at the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party, amid an ongoing trade war with the United States.
On July 15, the Party’s mouthpiece newspaper People’s Daily failed to mention Chinese leader Xi Jinping on its front page—the second such omission within a week, reported Voice of America (VOA). Many independent overseas Chinese media have reported that the repeated omission is the first such occurrence since 2013, around the time Xi officially took power.
