The protests show how Xi’s over-centralisation is exposing the CCP to public anger unseen since Tiananmen Square.

Dr. Chen Gang is Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. He provides consul... tancy for the Singapore government on political and energy issues in East Asia. He is frequently interviewed by media like Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, the BBC, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency. He sometimes gives lectures at the National University of Singapore.
The protests show how Xi’s over-centralisation is exposing the CCP to public anger unseen since Tiananmen Square.
At the 20th CCP Congress more Xi loyalists will take top positions, but ‘who after Xi’ questions will grow.