Know your Politburo (III)
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Yang Jiechi is China’s top diplomat. And he just got a promotion.
Some context: Yang is the first career diplomat on the Politburo since Qian Qichen retired in 2003. Yang is right on the edge of being too old to serve, and many thought he might step down.
Yang is a USA expert. He is former...