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China expels a record number from Communist party amid Xi’s intensified purges of top officials

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China expels a record number from Communist party amid Xi’s intensified purges of top officials

The Guardian · Oct 30, 2026, 2:56 AM UTC

The unprecedented number of empty seats at the fifth plenum – a symbol of expulsions – serve as a symbol for the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping China expelled a record number of officials from the Chinese Communist party (CCP) as it concluded a major political gathering , which saw an unprecedented number of empty seats indicating the scale of the…