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"Corruption" charges inbound for the people making these claims.

But there is probably more to the politburo’s statement than meets the eye. The statement said that specialised bodies that exist within the party’s central committee, which includes the powerful commissions that Xi’s loyalists now hold, should focus on “guidance and coordination over major initiatives” and to “avoid taking over others’ functions or overstepping boundaries”“.

Hilariously abstruse. But this is good news. Contrary to the ignorant takes this will generate in the West, the Chinese authoritarian model has not always been straightforwardly despotic. That's the reason it sometimes works. Maybe it was in the geopolitical "interest" of the West for Xi to go full Mao and crash his country, but it's not in the interest of everyone else.