2022 Watch: Chen Yixin Likely to Become China's Internal Security Commissar – The Diplomat
Advertisement Chen Yixin has rapidly gone from strength to strength and is now emerging as the leading candidate for secretary of the Central Politics and Legal Affairs Commission in 2022, with even speculation of a path to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary in 2027. However, Chen’s path to Politburo promotion is complicated by paranoia over the ever-present threat of a palace coup. Chen is heading up the 2021-2022 rectification campaign, a political purge along the lines of the first Xi administration’s “flies and tigers” campaign, which cleared political opposition for ...