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Ousted Chinese Officials ‘Plotted to Overthrow Xi’

During a panel session at the 19th Party Congress on Thursday, China’s securities commission chairman Liu Shiyu named former Chongqing party chief Sun Zhengcai as part of a toppled clique of high-ranking party officials who schemed to seize power from President Xi Jinping. Sun, once a rising politician and a top candidate for a place on the Politburo Standing Committee, was abruptly removed from office this summer for “serious discipline violations.” He was