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Davis called a special meeting of the Unified Government’s Neighborhood and Community Development standing committee to take place May 15.
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Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2024
But real decision-making authority remains firmly in the grasp of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo and its seven-member standing committee.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
Hui had been part of the CPPCC’s elite 300-member standing committee since 2013, but he was told not to attend the annual convention in March last year as his property group became the biggest casualty of the nation’s credit crunch.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
The decision was approved by the standing committee of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, according to CCTV.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
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Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2024
But real decision-making authority remains firmly in the grasp of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo and its seven-member standing committee.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
Hui had been part of the CPPCC’s elite 300-member standing committee since 2013, but he was told not to attend the annual convention in March last year as his property group became the biggest casualty of the nation’s credit crunch.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
The decision was approved by the standing committee of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, according to CCTV.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
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