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Current and former officials describe him as an unrelenting figure who expects subordinates to follow orders without question.

Bajolet, now 76, confirmed he had authorised the operation but said that he had not given any order to subordinates "to use any kind of coercion".

Instead of one annual judgment from a manager, employees may now receive regular comments from peers, subordinates and supervisors.

Since taking power in 2012, Xi has packed the leadership with loyalists, sidelined subordinates who owed their rise to predecessors and even cashiered some of his own protégés.

Congress and the judiciary are coequal with, not subordinate to, the president.