Johanna Costigan is a junior fellow at the Center for China Analysis at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York.
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Xi Jinping shows his strength by muscling women away from power
Chinese Communist Party abandons symbolic traditional gestures toward equality
New Politburo Standing Committee members at the Great Hall of the People on Oct. 23: Xi Jinping no longer feels any obligation to gesture toward gender equality. © Reuters
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