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Commentary: Xi Jinping’s not-so-bad, actually-quite-good year in 2020 The Chinese President made several political moves last year to strengthen his power, says Christian Le Miere.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a New Year s address in Beijing, Dec 31, 2020. (Photo: Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)
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LONDON: Many of us will look back on 2020 with anger as a year filled with illness, loss, penury and tragedy.
But one man may see the year in a brighter light – Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Despite the start of the year looking dreadful for China, with a raging pandemic in Wuhan that threatened to overwhelm the country, by the end of 2020, it had emerged as the only G20 economy expected to see economic growth, with the virus far less