Volume 20 Issue 2

Image: On December 26-27, 2019, the CCP Politburo convened a “democratic life meeting” centered around the propaganda slogan of “Don’t Forget [Our] Original Purpose and Firmly Remember the Mission.” Such meetings have become a regular end-of-year event for the CCP central leadership. (Source: Xinhua)

Image: PRC Premier Li Keqiang speaking with local medical personnel during an inspection tour in Wuhan City, January 27. (Source: CCTV / SCMP)

Image: PRC Premier Li Keqiang (center) presides over a November 25, 2019 meeting of senior CCP officials to review plans for the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025). Other figures present include Vice-Premier Han Zheng (right), a member of the Politburo Standing Committee; and Vice-Premier Liu He (second from left), the lead representative in trade negotiations with the United States. (Source: PRC State Council)

Image: Pope Francis (left) is greeted by Cardinal Charles Maung Bo (right), the Archbishop of Yangon, as the Pope arrived for a visit to Myanmar on November 27, 2017 (Source: Vatican News). Cardinal Maung Bo, who is also head of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, is one of a number of Roman Catholic leaders in Asia who have been more outspoken than the Vatican in expressing concerns over police brutality and other matters surrounding the crisis in Hong Kong.