You are talking about this so called G2.
It was an idea by Obama/Clinton (2009-2017). It was rejected (more precisely not picked up) by China under Hu Jintao. It started by lots of noises in the US think-tank circle (testing the water, informally asking China) around 2005. Picked up by Obama, that is the concept got much more publicity. But after a deafening silence from China, Hillary Clinton declared that there is no G2 in 2011.
Xi did lots of good things, but it is very wrong to personalize Chinese leadership. Chinese leadership is a collective consciousness that lasts over many decades with a strategy of many decades or even a century (shorter than this is not strategy in Chinese mind). So I am talking about seeing the current leadership as essentially one person (figuratively) from Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s to a decade after Xi Jingping.
Besides, there are corrupted officials in CPC, the number could be high. But there is no faction. Don't fall into the western MSM's narrative that there is pro-west factions inside CPC. It is an inertial thinking of the west because factionalism is the essence of western political system, but not China.
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