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Party Discipline Becomes Plenum Focus

The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s Politburo has met this week and set the date for the upcoming plenary session in October. According to Xinhua, tightening rules for party discipline will be at the top of the agenda this year, a focus that is markedly different from previous plenums that have centered on economic reform and rule of law. Ben Blanchard at Reuters reports: Tuesday’s decision followed a meeting of the Politburo, one of the party’s