Continued Power Struggle Likely Despite Xi’s Sway

Infighting may occur even among president’s loyalists, Harvard panel members predict

By: Toh Han Shih

Chinese President Xi Jinping has filled the new Politburo Standing Committee, the handful of the country’s most powerful leaders, entirely with members of his own faction, ensuring that at age 69, he could stay in power for at least another decade, according to participants at a wide-ranging November 8 panel discussion at Harvard’s Fairb…