TOKYO -- China's annual "Beidaihe meeting" will arrive in two weeks or so, kicking off the country's most heated political season.
Chinese Communist Party elders no longer cause President Xi Jinping as much anxiety as they once did, though they can still criticize him for a few days every summer. (Nikkei Montage/Source photos by AFP/Jiji and AP)
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