Yang Jiechi, China’s point person for the boundary talks with India, has been elevated to the 25-member Politburo, the second highest rung in the country’s power hierarchy.
Mr. Yang has been China’s Special Representative at the boundary talks with India during President Xi Jinping’s first term in office that began in 2012.
Till his promotion that was announced during the course of the just concluded 19th Party Congress, Mr. Yang was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) — a category lower than the Politburo.
The ruling CPC’s decision to elevate him to the Politburo is widely viewed as a signal of the President’s trust in China’s top diplomat.
