The Foreign Affairs Leading Small Group of the Communist Party of China (FALSG) also known as the Leading Group on Foreign Affairs is a leading small group

Leading small group

In the political structure of China, a leading small group or LSG, is an ad hoc supra-ministerial coordinating and consulting body formed to build consensus on issues that cut across the government, party, and military systems when the existing bureaucratic structure is unable to do so...

 of the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

 that exercises supervision on foreign affairs. It is currently chaired by Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...

 and contains several senior members of the People's Republic of China leadership.

The FALSG became much more important in the 1990s as the PRC leadership became much more institutionalized and less focused on personalistic factions.

See also

• Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
  Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
  The foreign relations of the People's Republic of China guides the way in which it interacts with foreign nations. As a great power and emerging superpower, China's foreign policy and strategic thinking is highly influential. China officially states it "unswervingly pursues an independent foreign...