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China’s President Pushes Back Against Western Culture (Updated)

Last year’s CCP Central Committee plenum focused on “cultural reform” and the main document released after the session was titled, “Central Committee Decision Concerning the Major Issue of Deepening Cultural System Reforms, Promoting the Great Development and Prosperity of Socialist Culture.” Now, President Hu Jintao continues this policy initiative with an essay in which he calls