The most important political meeting in China, the “Two Sessions”, begins this weekend. It will show how Beijing could tackle the problems at home and abroad – and whether Xi can expand his power even further.
From
Lea Sahay, Beijing
The night before, the observers have to be in quarantine, these are the rules when the National People’s Congress meets in the Great Hall of the People from Sunday, and its advisory body from Saturday. It’s the last bit of state of emergency at China’s most important leadership meeting, where the Communist Party wants to show one thing above all: that China has overcome the pandemic.