TOKYO -- One year and eight months since its last key meeting, the top echelon of the Chinese Communist Party descended on Beijing for a four-day gathering through Oct. 31.
In China's "whole-process democracy," President Xi Jinping's vote carries the day. (Nikkei Montage/Source photo by Xinhua/Kyodo)
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