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:{{See also|United Front Work Department}}
:{{See also|United Front Work Department}}
In 2015 Xi established a leading small group<ref>Leading small groups are powerful advisory bodies that formulate and help implement policies concerning particular topics, including coordination across Party and state bureaucracies. </ref> on United Front Work with himself at its head, signifying “a direct line of command from the [CCP] Politburo to [the] United Front,” according to the ''Financial Times''. Xi called United Front work “an important way to ensure the success of the [Chinese Communist] Party’s cause” and urged the CCP to form the “broadest possible patriotic United Front.” President Xi has also called United Front work a “magic weapon”. The elevation of the importance of United Front work resulted in adding UFWD officials to top CCP and government posts and roughly 40,000 new cadres overall in the first few years after Xi became president.<ref>https://jamestown.org/program/united-front-work-department-magic-weapon-home-abroad/</ref>
In 2015 Xi established a leading small group<ref>Leading small groups are powerful advisory bodies that formulate and help implement policies concerning particular topics, including coordination across Party and state bureaucracies. </ref> on United Front Work with himself at its head, signifying “a direct line of command from the [CCP] Politburo to [the] United Front,” according to the ''Financial Times''. Xi called United Front work “an important way to ensure the success of the [Chinese Communist] Party’s cause” and urged the CCP to form the “broadest possible patriotic United Front.” President Xi has also called United Front work a “magic weapon”. The elevation of the importance of United Front work resulted in adding UFWD officials to top CCP and government posts and roughly 40,000 new cadres overall in the first few years after Xi became president.<ref>https://jamestown.org/program/united-front-work-department-magic-weapon-home-abroad/</ref>
===610 Office===
Under Xi Jinping the [[610 Office]] changed its name to the Central Leading Group on Preventing and Dealing with Heretical Religions, but is still commonly known as the 610 Office. The [[610 Office]] is the main organization created to eliminate Falun Gong and is similar to [[Nazi Germany]]’s [[Gestapo]],<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=610+office&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CaTgbTS0lwdKImDI8MzVwg5ieby7coLKB55Y38Il6Uf4LSOU5BKWR6DhUCVUrUVTHZMWrfkIQ9QzZ95REgSXMwBTtBjk4WjdFOEQnSdJhmkWXK6qnTUoRWTTBhP71MRr5NQZqUUwNfokYrMqEgnI8MzVwg5ieRFO6zJ2DoP3jSoSCby7coLKB55YEU7rMnYOg_1eNKhIJ38Il6Uf4LSMRTusydg6D940qEgmU5BKWR6DhUBFO6zJ2DoP3jSoSCSVUrUVTHZMWEU7rMnYOg_1eNKhIJrfkIQ9QzZ94RzvQIkOPrUr4qEglREgSXMwBTtBHO9AiQ4-tSvioSCRjk4WjdFOEQEbOXi0254iA5KhIJnSdJhmkWXK4RzvQIkOPrUr4qEgmqnTUoRWTTBhGzl4tNueIgOSoSCRP71MRr5NQZEbOXi0254iA5KhIJqUUwNfokYrMR8Jk7TX2bxnlhx-bsD10kW9o&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCo6vB4v3pAhXQKs0KHQujCbYQuIIBegQIARA6&biw=1280&bih=881&dpr=1 Google images]</ref> The office was originally the creature of a rival CCP faction headed by former CCP boss [[Jiang Zemin]], but in an alleged "anti-corruption, reform campaign," Xi replaced Jiang cronies with his own and changed the agency's name.
Between 2018 and 2019, structural reforms under current Chinese leader Xi Jinping led to the nominal disbandment of the 610 Office and two related security organizations. But the reform also called for the 610 Office’s functions to be merged into the Chinese police force, as well as a powerful Communist Party organ, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC). According to analysts, scrapping the Office represented a move by Xi to further consolidate his power over the regime security forces, which had been dominated by a rival faction of former party boss Jiang Zemin allies throughout the 2000s.<ref>https://sinoinsider.com/2018/03/politics-watch-decoding-chinas-party-and-state-institutional-reforms/</ref>
According to documents obtained by Chinese-language ''[[Epoch Times]]'' (''The Great Era''),<ref>*https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/20/4/12/n12023895.htm<br>*https://www.conservapedia.com/User:RobSmith/%22Exclusive%22_internal_documents_leak_610_super_power_not_terminated</ref> the 610 Office in Fangshan District in Beijing, formally known as the Fangshan Political and Legal Affairs Commission’s “Anti-Heretical Religion Guidance Branch,” conducted an assessment titled “Status of Work in Preventing and Handling Heretical Religions” in 2019. The document shows that despite Xi Jinping's aggressive restructuring of Party's institutions and the sacking of the central "610" and its offices since he took office in 2012, the extralegal power of the "610" has not diminished and the persecution of Falun Gong has not diminished.
[[File:BraveJohnny.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Kwon Pyong, also known as BraveJohnny on [[Twitter]], was disappeared shortly after posting a selfie of himself wearing a T-shirt with "Xitler" on it.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180129235006if_/https://twitter.com/kwonpyong/status/770081265475325953</ref>]]
Fangshan District 610 assessment shows that the District Anti-Cult Guidance Section is responsible for evaluating the performance of the 93 party and government organs in five departments, from the Political and Legal Commission, the Organization Department, the [[Commission for Discipline Inspection]], the Public Security Bureau, the Procuratorate, the Court, the Propaganda Department, the Finance Bureau, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Housing and Construction Commission, the SASAC, the Health and Health Commission, the Internet Trust Office, to the National People's Congress, the CPPCC, the United Front Department, the Education Commission, the Commerce Bureau, the Municipal Administration of Law Enforcement, the Landscaping Bureau, the Agricultural and Rural Bureau, and so on, almost all the party and government organs in Beijing's housing and mountainous areas are subject to "610" assessment.
===Militarization of space===
Shortly after becoming president in March 2013, Xi Jinping made his ambitions for China's space power clear. "Developing the space program and turning the country into a space power is the space dream that we have continuously pursued."<ref>https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17306/china-space-power</ref>
===Suppression of human rights===
The case of Kwon Pyong, an ethnic Korean living in northeast China, as reported by the ''New York Times'' is illustrative. <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-xitler-tshirt-kwon-pyong.html</ref> Kwon, who studied in the United States and went by the [[Twitter]] handle of BraveJohnny, was disappeared after posting a selfie with a T-shirt criticizing Xi as Xitler. Kwon was charged with “inciting subversion.” Kwon's two lawyers were excluded from defending him days before the trial when a judge demanded a letter of introduction from the attornies local bureau of justice. One attorney commented, “That’s an impossible request and outside the bounds of the law. It’s an unlawful and unreasonable demand.” CCP officials denied the attornies' requests to see Kwon and the case files. CCP officials had told Kwon's parents that he could expect a prison sentence of one and a half years, as long as he dropped his attornies.
Kwon aired his views on Twitter and Facebook, which are both inaccessible in China, except for people with the knowledge and tools to burrow under a wall of online censorship. The indictment against Kwon said the charge was based on 70 or more comments, images and video that he shared on Twitter and his Facebook page. The comments and images “slandered and insulted state power and the socialist system,” the prosecutors charged, according to the Human Rights Campaign in China.
===Scrapping family limits===
Xi had the disastrous [[One-child Policy]] scrapped and replaced it with a Two-child Policy on October 29, 2015 which then took effect on January 1, 2016. On May 31, 2021, he announced that married couples will be allowed to have up to three children to deal with an aging population while giving financial support for families, but next month on June 18, he decided to end all childbirth restrictions by 2025.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-plans-further-shift-toward-encouraging-childbirth-11624003448</ref>
==Dictatorial career==
==Dictatorial career==