THE COMMUNIST PARTY & THE LAW

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The Communist Party of China (CPC) is apparently the absolute power centre in Chinese politics: Deng Xiaoping made the Four Cardinal Principles5 paramount in Chinese politics – upholding the socialist path, the people's democratic dictatorship, the leadership of the Communist Party [of China], and the Marxist-Leninist-Mao Zedong thought – thus the Party still stands aloof, assumes overall oversight and coordinates all sides of the executive agencies, NPC6, CPPCC, and mass organizations. If the latter are the fleshes (and the armed forces the bones) of the Chinese political body, the Party is undoubtedly its brain,main nerves and tendons: it leads and controls all other political (and not only) organizations and institutions in the PRC, allowing observers to use the once perhaps more fashionable term “Party-State” to capture China’s political reality.

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