China’s Communist Party targets big risks in countdown to congress


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The Communist Party pledged to double down on controlling risks across the board in the countdown to a major party meeting next year that is set to mark the start of President Xi Jinping ’s third term as party leader. “[We] must insist on making political security the top priority and coordinate to step up security work in key disciplines including political security, economic security, social security [and] technology security,” the Politburo said in a statement after a meeting on Thursday. “[We] must firmly uphold regime security, institutional security and ideological security, and strictly defend ourselves against all sorts of...