BEIJING: A Communist-controlled debating body opened its annual meeting in Beijing on Tuesday with a warning not to imitate Western politics, after authorities pledged to implement the “rule of law with Chinese characteristics.”

Membership of the largely-ceremonial Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, or CPPCC, is a sign of political approval in China, and it counts some of the country’s mega-rich among its 2,153 members.

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