Mao’s Faithful May Be Pulling Xi Leftward
After speculation late last year that Mao Zedong’s legacy was soon to be sidelined, fears about the direction in which “Second Generation Reds” might lead China have returned. From John Garnaut at The Age:
In the heady days of the early post-Mao years, as China began opening to the ...
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For the most part, the Party Princelings assume that by right of birth and upbringing in the Party oligarchy they effectively own China’s government and have a proprietary right to rule in a monopolistic manner, just as their elders did, forever denying China’s populace any say in selecting their rulers through a voting process. Aside from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the PRC dang tianxia, no other country in the G-20 cuts its populace out of elections for national leaders in this way. Do the Saudis and the Chinese Communist Party elite imagine that they can get away with this forever even in the age of the internet?