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Xi Jinping set out to save the Communist Party. But critics say he made himself its biggest threat
Analysis by Ben Westcott and CNN staff
Updated 10:46 PM ET, Sun July 25, 2021
Hong Kong (CNN)In January 2013, months after taking the helm of China s ruling party, Xi Jinping gathered the country s top politicians and asked them why the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had collapsed.
Xi, of course, already had the answer. It completely denied Soviet history, the history of the Soviet Communist Party, denied Lenin, denied Stalin, he said. Party organizations at all levels had almost no effect, and the army was not there.
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Dr Shirley Ze Yu is Asia fellow at Ash Centre, Harvard Kennedy School, a senior visiting fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at London School of Economics, and an associate at the Lau China Institute at King s College London. She has held senior executive roles in Chinese and global corporations over the past decade, and was formerly a China Central Television (CCTV) news anchor.