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Party consolidates control over government

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The Party – and Xi Jinping personally – has gained even more say over how the government functions.
That is made clear by newly updated State Council work rules released on Friday.
The revised rules name-check Xi six times, up from three in the previous 2018 edition.

The new rules reference the Par...