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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You should put this story in Breaking News.
Everything else is...
Isn’t that one of the new gender-speak pronouns?
That’s what Xi said...
I don’t think I ever posted much in Breaking News.
I just made the comment because it appears that everyone ELSE thinks that their threads are BREAKING.
Not you.
;-)
Omigosh. A supposed liberal reformer who in reality is a totalitarian would-be king.
I’m shocked... SHOCKED I tell you.
Probably some pronoun confused lunatic who lives in New York and is now making a living suing business owners into bankruptcy.
“What happens in China, stays in China”.
And we expected a champion of democratic ideals and freedom?
Some people are really stupid.
Who is Xi? He’s number 11 on the totem pole.
“crackdown on civil society and promotion of a cult of personality “
He’s a ‘liberal reformer’ just as much as Obama.
“Jinping himself, as the offspring of a “capitalist roader,” was “sent down to the countryside” to labor alongside the peasants.”
That happened to everyone of that age at that time.
Xi is the top thug. That’s how it works.
Malcolm the Tenth’s kid?
Yet another in an endless line of Chinese gerontocrats and would-be emperors.
Lol!
This story brought to you by the letter X.
iPhone 10??
Reminds me of North Korean propaganda art.
Me too, especially after the MSM told us he was a reformer and they have never misrepresented or been in error about Communist leaders in the past.
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