Resignation of Former Chinese Leader’s Son a Sign of Jiang Faction’s Waning Power: Experts

A paramilitary policeman stands guard at Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the adjacent Great Hall of the People on March 7, 2009. Feng Li/Getty Images

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Jiang Mianheng, eldest son of former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin, reportedly resigned from his position as president of ShanghaiTech University and was appointed as chair of the university’s governing board last week. Experts, however, believe Jiang Mianheng did not resign, but rather was demoted as a result of the ongoing purge of his father’s faction.