Chinese gov't becomes even more repressive

[Beet]

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http://time.com/3750389/china-feminists-international-womens-day-wu-rongrong-wei-tingting-wang-man-zheng-churan-li-tingting/

[Beet]

It's hard to say what's the broader picture. Senior level CPC power struggles are important if they are about things that will actually matter to people, and we know what those things are. I'm not sure both of those things are true in this case, however. The Jiang faction is known to be conservative, but so is the Xi administration. If anything, the Xi administration is even more conservative than the Jiang faction. But ultimately, it's what it all means in terms of policy for the average person - to say nothing of the outside world - which matters.