Portraits of Chinese leaders are on display in a shop in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Monday as the 6th Plenum, a key conclave of China’s Communist Party elite, opened in the capital. At the Plenum, Xi Jingping, the secretary general of the Communist Party and the president of the nation, will likely seek to tighten his control. AFP / FRED DUFOUR
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