But eventually it s everybody. because communist regime would not tolerate any opposition, any dissending voices. they re coming after all of us. we are all will become victims if we let them succeed. rachel: it s so interesting. she says americaning really need to start americans really need to start reading their history. many of the groups that were protected during the communist thing in china under mao, she said those groups later were targeted. they cheered at one point and became the targets later. no one s safe. she makes a point that communism, people think of it so much in economic terms but it really is an ideology of authoritarianism, tyranny, crushing opposition, no back and
Xi Jinping is often described as China’s most powerful leader in decades, perhaps even since Mao. He has been credited if sometimes grudgingly with pursuing a vigorous foreign policy, economic reforms, and a historic crackdown on corruption.But as Xi completes his third year in office this month, this judgment seems increasingly mistaken, with China trapped by the same taboos
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Following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society New York on May 21, 2015, “ChinaFile Presents: Does Xi Jinping Represent a Return to the Politics of the Mao Era?” The evening convened the scholars Roderick MacFarquhar and Andrew Walder the publication of whose new book on Mao Zedong was the occasion for the event with diplomat Susan Shirk and Orville
In the almost one-hundred-year existence of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), its current general secretary, Xi Jinping, is only the second leader clearly chosen by his peers. The first was Mao Zedong. Both men beat out the competition, and thus secured a legitimacy their predecessors lacked.1 Why was Xi chosen?The Beijing rumor mill had long indicated that the outgoing