Posted on 05/31/2016 5:10:07 PM PDT by Sawdring
More than halfway through his five-year term as president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party—expected to be the first of at least two—Xi Jinping’s widening crackdown on civil society and promotion of a cult of personality have disappointed many observers, both Chinese and foreign, who saw him as destined by family heritage and life experience to be a liberal reformer. Many thought Xi must have come to understand the dangers of Party dictatorship from the experiences of his family under Mao’s rule. His father, Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002), was almost executed in an inner-Party conflict in 1935, was purged in another struggle in 1962, was “dragged out” and tortured during the Cultural Revolution, and was eased into retirement after another Party confrontation in 1987. During the Cultural Revolution, one of Xi Jinping’s half-sisters was tormented to the point that she committed suicide. Jinping himself, as the offspring of a “capitalist roader,” was “sent down to the countryside” to labor alongside the peasants. The hardships were so daunting that he reportedly tried to escape, but was caught and sent back.
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“The hardships were so daunting that he reportedly tried to escape, but was caught and sent back.”
What he learned was not the danger of dictatorship, but the danger of being on the wrong side.
Ah, the Chinese propaganda machine in top gear.
Xi is the most dangerous leader in the world right now. Think of Saddam with trillions.
When the country didn’t make the 8% growth mark, guess who was “investigated” for “Corruption” and sent away for life in prison ?
Yeah, this guy is a nut. And his dad never did any of those things. He’s a first-generation Commie Chief, and was literally born for this position.
Thanks for the headline, I will read it tonight.
No, he is Xi.
I see the Nork king is so fixated on his height that he had his hairdresser give him a Shetland pony pompador.
FYI
Yet another foreign leader who makes Obama look like the mental midget that he is.
He wants to be in an 80’s New Wave band.
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