This could involve the United States targeting a member of China's powerful politburo for the first time.

Last week, Kim convened a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's powerful politburo to discuss stricter enforcement of anti-epidemic steps, state media said.

It also calls on Trump to impose sanctions for the first time on a member of China's powerful politburo, Xinjiang Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo.

Then he was promoted to the all- powerful Politburo Standing Committee in 2007.

It specifically singles out a member of China's powerful Politburo as responsible for "gross human rights violations" against them.

Washington imposed sanctions on the autonomous region of Xinjiang's Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo, a member of China's powerful Politburo, and three other officials.

At the congress, Xi's fix-it man, Wang Qishan, was promoted to the all- powerful Politburo Standing Committee and named head of the party watchdog commission.

China is engaged in a once-in-a-decade leadership change where seven out of nine leaders in the powerful Politburo are slated to retire late this year.