The bodies overseeing financial, social, science and technology, and Hong Kong and Macao work have shifted to direct party control.
Some of the new party bodies oversee areas that are driving frictions with the United States, such as China’s military-civil fusion and technology self-reliance initiatives, efforts to play an increasing role in Hong Kong’s affairs, and ambitions to increase party control of private companies.
These changes could pose challenges for government affairs work in China if the government regulators companies typically engage with now have less decisionmaking authority.