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===List of Politicians with ties to the CCP===

===List of Politicians with ties to the CCP===

'''Joe Biden''', '''Eric Swalwell'''<ref>https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/org-linked-to-alleged-chinese-spy-who-dated-swalwell-has-ccp-ties-places-staff-in-offices-fang-fang-fbi-apapa-ro-khanna</ref>, '''Tim Walz'''<ref>https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-launches-probe-into-governor-walzs-extensive-engagement-with-china-and-ccp-entities/</ref>, '''Abigail Spanberger'''<ref>https://cis.org/Cadman/Curious-Case-Chinese-Communist-Campaign-Donor</ref>,'''Dianne Feinstein'''<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/chinese-spy-infiltration-mayors-bust-adds-growing-timeline-foreign-influence-creeping-us</ref>,'''Ken Paxton'''<ref>https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ken-paxton-donations-china-22438240.php</ref>,'''Judy Chu'''<ref>https://luttrell.house.gov/media/in-the-news/exclusive-gop-reps-target-house-members-collaboration-chinese-intelligence</ref>,'''Ro Khanna'''<ref>https://www.facebook.com/CBSNews/videos/httpscbsnws4im6i5z/1650639689916524/</ref>

'''Joe Biden''', '''Eric Swalwell''',<ref>https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/org-linked-to-alleged-chinese-spy-who-dated-swalwell-has-ccp-ties-places-staff-in-offices-fang-fang-fbi-apapa-ro-khanna</ref> '''Tim Walz''',<ref>https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-launches-probe-into-governor-walzs-extensive-engagement-with-china-and-ccp-entities/</ref> '''Abigail Spanberger''',<ref>https://cis.org/Cadman/Curious-Case-Chinese-Communist-Campaign-Donor</ref>'''Dianne Feinstein''',<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/chinese-spy-infiltration-mayors-bust-adds-growing-timeline-foreign-influence-creeping-us</ref>'''Ken Paxton''',<ref>https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ken-paxton-donations-china-22438240.php</ref>'''Judy Chu''',<ref>https://luttrell.house.gov/media/in-the-news/exclusive-gop-reps-target-house-members-collaboration-chinese-intelligence</ref>'''Ro Khanna'''<ref>https://www.facebook.com/CBSNews/videos/httpscbsnws4im6i5z/1650639689916524/</ref>

{{See also|Politburo Standing Committee}}

{{See also|Politburo Standing Committee}}

The 7-member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) is the most senior leadership body with each member ranked 1 thru 7, not as equals.  Each shoulders primary responsibility for a specific portfolio.  The Paramount Leader, Xi Jinping as of 2020, is ranked No. 1. Past Paramount Leaders have been in order of succession:

The 7-member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) is the most senior leadership body with each member ranked 1 thru 7, not as equals.  Each shoulders primary responsibility for a specific portfolio.  The Paramount Leader, Xi Jinping as of 2020, is ranked No. 1. Past Paramount Leaders have been in order of succession:

*[[Mao Zedong]] (1949-1976)

*[[Mao Zedong]] (1949–1976)

*[[Hua Guofeng]] (1976-1978)

*[[Hua Guofeng]] (1976–1978)

*[[Deng Xiaoping]] (1978-1989)

*[[Deng Xiaoping]] (1978–1989)

*[[Jiang Zemin]] (1989-2003)

*[[Jiang Zemin]] (1989–2003)

*[[Hu Jintao]] (2002-2012)

*[[Hu Jintao]] (2002–2012)

*[[Xi Jinping]] (2012–present)

*[[Xi Jinping]] (2012–present)

:{{see also|Great Leap Forward|Green Leap Forward}}

:{{see also|Great Leap Forward|Green Leap Forward}}

In the early 1950s, China chose to model its socialist economy after that of the Soviet Union. The Soviet model called for the capital-intensive development of heavy industry, with the capital to be generated from the agricultural sector of the economy. The state would purchase grain from the farmers at low prices and sell it, both at home and on the export market, at high prices. In practice, agricultural production did not increase fast enough to generate the amount of capital required to build up China's industry according to plan. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) decided that the answer was to reorganize Chinese agriculture by pushing through a program of cooperativization (or collectivization) that would bring China's small farmers, their small plots of land, and their limited draught animals, tools, and machinery together into larger and, presumably, more efficient cooperatives.<ref>http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/mao_zedong_agricultural_cooperation.pdf</ref>  The Great Leap Forward was a program to nationalize industry and agriculture.

In the early 1950s, China chose to model its socialist economy after that of the Soviet Union. The Soviet model called for the capital-intensive development of heavy industry, with the capital to be generated from the agricultural sector of the economy. The state would purchase grain from the farmers at low prices and sell it, both at home and on the export market, at high prices. In practice, agricultural production did not increase fast enough to generate the amount of capital required to build up China's industry according to plan. Mao Zedong (1893–1976) decided that the answer was to reorganize Chinese agriculture by pushing through a program of cooperativization (or collectivization) that would bring China's small farmers, their small plots of land, and their limited draught animals, tools, and machinery together into larger and, presumably, more efficient cooperatives.<ref>http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/mao_zedong_agricultural_cooperation.pdf</ref>  The Great Leap Forward was a program to nationalize industry and agriculture.

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|CCP Chairman Mao Zedong (third left) with [[Israel Epstein]] (first left), [[Anna Louise Strong]] (center), [[Frank Coe]] (second right), and [[Solomon Adler]] (first right). ]]

|CCP Chairman Mao Zedong (third left) with [[Israel Epstein]] (first left), [[Anna Louise Strong]] (center), [[Frank Coe]] (second right), and [[Solomon Adler]] (first right). ]]