Congress comes at crucial time

Important meeting: A woman walking past an installation of the CPC’s emblem ahead of China’s 20th Communist Party Congress at Daxing International Airport in Beijing. — AFP

BEIJING: The upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be a highly important meeting, as it will take place at a perilous time in global affairs amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and widespread economic unease, a US scholar said.

Jon Taylor, a professor and chair of the political science and geography department at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said the outcomes of the Congress tomorrow may be both ideological and structural in nature.