Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.

Trump, during a press interaction at the White House, said that the first question he would ask the Chinese leader would be about fentanyl.

During a press interaction at the White House, US President Donald Trump said the first question he would ask Chinese President Xi Jinping would be about fentanyl.

With a military purge in Beijing before a major political meeting this week some analysts ask: whom can leader Xi Jinping trust?

Speculation about Xi's grip on power intensified during secret meeting that lays out the country's economic agenda for the next five years.

After President Xi Jinping ousted a group of top generals whose careers overlapped for decades, state media accused them of “severely undermining” the Communist Party’s highest echelons of authority.

The Chinese Communist Party reaffirmed President Xi Jinping's core leadership, concluding a four-day meeting with a major military purge and a new five-year plan aiming for economic self-reliance. The session saw the expulsion of top military officials amidst anti-corruption campaigns,

General He Weidong was a member of the ruling Politburo and a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission. He was also a longtime personal friend of Xi’s. He’s now joined dozens of other disgraced – and disempowered – military commanders caught up in a decade-long “anti-corruption” purge of the Communist Party’s ranks.