As seemingly forced exit of former President Hu Jintao showed, family history of Communist Party loyalty now means less than allegiance to President Xi Jinping
When China's former President Hu Jintao was escorted out of the 20th National Congress in full view of the foreign press corps, his exit appeared to signal a change in status for a whole generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders who had supported President Xi Jinping's election to an unprecedented third term. "The second generation…
As seemingly forced exit of former President Hu Jintao showed, family history of Communist Party loyalty now means less than allegiance to President Xi Jinping
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“This was the week that changed the world” was Richard Nixon’s summing up at the end of his trip to China in February 1972.1 The hyperbole was justified, for this visit to China by an American president was a turning point in the cold war. Hitherto, the Soviet Union and China had been antagonists of the US. Thereafter, both Beijing and Moscow found it in their interest to come