Analects | Chinese politics

The brains of the party

By G.E. | BEIJING

What is that they're reading?

FEW people have heard of the journal Internal Reference of Ideology and Theory. It is published in such secrecy by the Central Party School in Beijing that only several dozen people read it. They just happen to be the most powerful people in China. Nicknamed the “express train”, it is one of a few vehicles trusted to carry ideas directly to the desks of President Xi Jinping and his colleagues on the Politburo.

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