How Xi Jinping turned to the past to secure the future of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule.
Xi Jinping leading a pledge of vows to the Chinese Communist Party at a Gala celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the CCP. Credit: Ng Han Guan via AP Photo
Xi Jinping is obsessed with history: his place in it, the power of the past to shore up support for the Chinese Communist Party’s rule, and why it must, therefore, be kept under firm control. The failure to do that, he has warned since his earliest days as a leader, could threaten the party’s very existence.
“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse?” he asked in a private speech to party officials in December 2012, less than a month after bec
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