PoliticsVOA Focus Today (October 27, 2026): Experts examine China’s Fifth Plenum and Xi’s plans for the 21st Party Congress

The program covers the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s Fifth Plenum and attention to Xi Jinping’s personnel plans and a major purge of senior military figures. Other topics include US monitoring of Iran’s nuclear facilities, the final push in the US midterms, autonomous warfare, US spaceflight history, and elections in Brazil, Israel and Serbia.