习近平和他的核心集团

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黄安伟, 习近平和他的核心集团. 纽约时报中文网, Sept 28, 2015
cn.nytimes.com/china/20150928/c28advisers/

, which is translated from

Edward Wong, Inner Circle of China’s President Gives Cold Shoulder to Western Officials; Aides are kept at a distance by a leader and resist ties with their counterparts. New York Times, Sept 27, 2015.
(Wang Qishan, 67 "by many accounts wields even more power than Li Keqiang, the prime minister.  Mr Li is expected to steer economic policy, but Mr Xi insists on having the final say, political insiders say. That is in part because Mr Xi is able to turn to Liu He, 63, an economist who has master’s degrees from Seton Hall University and Harvard University.  Mr Liu, head of the office of the party’s central leading group for financial and economic affairs 中央财经领导小组办公室主任, has written about the need for China to adopt a more consumer-oriented growth model and to embrace market forces. American officials say he says the same in meetings")

Note:
(a) "Western officials say that this icy remove is true not only of Mr Wang [Huning 王沪宁], but also of other advisers with whom Mr Xi travels, including Li Zhanshu, essentially Mr Xi’s chief of staff, and LIU He 刘鹤, his top economic adviser."

remove (n): "a distance or interval separating one person or thing from another [view the two examples below the noun definitions]"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remove
(b) " 'We’re seeing something new with Xi,' said John Delury 鲁乐汉, an author of 'Wealth and Power,' a book on modern Chinese history."

Orville Schell and John Delury, Wealth and Power 富强; China's long march to the twenty-first century. Random House, 2014.