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19th Party Congress

OVER

80%

Accuracy

TWO SESSIONS

OVER

70%

Accuracy

FOILED COUP

Predicted Attempted Coup

Politburo Standing Committee - 100% Accurate

Our analysis was based on two guidelines

  • Xi Jinping needs to fully consolidate power while resisting interference by Party elders and the collective leadership system
  • Xi needs to keep Wang Qishan in office to maintain power.

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Politburo - 80% Accurate

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Central Committee prediction - 81% Accurate

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Xi Jinping won’t pick a successor

  WHAT HAPPENED  

  • Before the 19th Congress, many observers predicted that Xi Jinping would designate a successor per recent Party norms. Chongqing chief Chen Min’er was widely tipped to succeed Xi.
  WHAT WE SAID  
  • Xi Jinping won’t pick a successor because he is consolidating power and does not need to groom future challengers to his authority.

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Wang Qishan is named Chinese vice president

  WHAT WE SAID  

  • We analyzed in October 2017 that Wang would become vice president, and were the first to do so. Speculations of Wang’s appointment only surfaced after our analysis was published.
  WHAT HAPPENED  
  • On March 17, 2018 Wang Qishan is officially elected as vice president at the Two Sessions. Few observers anticipated the move."

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State Council vice premier appointments - 100% Accurate

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We correctly predicted over two-thirds of the 110-plus senior appointments for key Party and state institutions at the 2018 Two Sessions.

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Failed coup before the 19th Party Congress

  WHAT HAPPENED  

  • In July 2017, Chongqing chief Sun Zhengcai was removed from his post and investigated by the anti-corruption agency. Meanwhile, PLA chief of the joint staff Fang Fenghui and Central Military Commission Political Work Department head Zhang Yang were removed from their posts in late August 2017.
  WHAT WE SAID  
  • Sun Zhengcai, Fang Fenghui, and Zhang Yang were purged because Xi was “stopping a coup attempt by the Jiang Zemin political faction.”

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2017-10-19

Top securities regulator Liu Shiyu criticizes Sun Zhengcai and a handful of purged Jiang faction members of having “plotted to usurp the Party leadership.”

2017-11-03

Zhang Yang committed suicide while under house arrest, according to state media. He was being investigated over his links with purged military vice chairs Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, who were accused of seeking to “wreck and split the Party.”

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2018-01-09

Fang Fenghui is officially investigated. The South China Morning Post reports that Fang is closely associated with Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou.

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2018-01-26

CCP General Office director Ding Xuexiang said at a meeting that "virtually all high-level officials who were probed for corruption were guilty of political misconduct. These officials partook in vote buying, formed cliques and factions, and some even sought to usurp the Party leadership.”

2018-10-16

State media announce the expulsion of Fang Fenghui and Zhang Yang from the Communist Party.