Last week in Beijing, China’s Communist Party gathered for its Fourth Plenum. The Plenum was held to outline national development goals for the next five years. But what reverberated beyond the official rhetoric was not what was said-but who all were missing. As per a Bloomberg report, just 168 of the 205 full Central Committee members attended, the lowest turnout since the Cultural Revolution. The cause? Likely Xi Jinping’s expanding purges-especially within the military. But looming over this meeting, and over China’s future, is a question no one in the room dares speak aloud:

He runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist -- smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There's nobody in Hollywood like this guy. Donald Trump on Xi Jinping Just before the plenum, Xi purged nine top military

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