At a time when an important meeting of the Communist Party of China was being held, an article praising Xi Jinping was deleted from official Chinese websites.
The 3rd Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing on July 15. On the first day of the session, a long article entitled "Reformer Xi Jinping" was published in Xinhua News Agency. But the article was suddenly deleted a day later.
The article praised Xi Jinping as a "reformer" and put him on par with Deng Xiaoping, former chairman of the Communist Party of China.
Some analysts have argued that the deletion of this article is actually a denial of Xi Jinping's political position, and that special circumstances such as calling for Xi Jinping's resignation may have occurred at this meeting.
Some analysts disagreed with this view, saying that there is no sign of instability in Xi Jinping's regime, and that this may be related to the economic downturn. Some analysts have suggested that the article praised Xi Jinping excessively, and may have deleted it for fear of backlash.