First published OCT 13, 2022 Updated 6 minutes ago Foreign Affairs China's ultra-secret national party congress meeting on Sunday - at which the formal process of appointing a new leadership will begin - will shape China's future. Jason Young explains what's at stake.  In February 1956, First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev delivered a ‘secret speech' to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In it, Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin's cult of personality and dictatorial rule. The tenor of the speech was leaked to media, but the full text only became public in 1989, some 33 years after it was delivered.

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