Xi Jinping’s campaign to extend his enormous power to the coming years reached a new stage on Tuesday when the Chinese Communist Party issued decision in history May one of its esteemed leaders anoint him in an hour Mr. Xi had a video chat with President Baiden.
Senior party officials He confirmed the decision last week, when some key points were published in the official summary of their meeting. However, the government did not publish the entire document until much later, the third summary of the CCP’s 100-year history. Scientists, investors and government analysts will analyze the decision to see what it reveals about Mr. Xi’s worldview and intentions. Here are some starting points.
Xi Jinping lifted
–
–Letters and documents full of jargon from the Chinese Communist Party can sometimes be distant. Not this time.
–
–In many official speeches and introductory speeches, it was emphasized that the decision had one main goal: to strengthen Mr. Xi’s position as a transformative leader, which is necessary to ensure China’s growth.
Almost two-thirds of the document is devoted to Mr Xi’s nine years in power and the changes he has made in politics, economics, foreign policy and other areas. The name of this gentleman appears 22 times in the resolution; Mao Zedong received 18 mentions and Dan Xiaoping received six. Mr. Xi’s immediate predecessor, Hu Jintao, who was in power for ten years, received one man.
As in Chinese politics, Mr Xi has already been promoted her own logo The resolution includes: The Two Institutions (Liang ge queli), ie the designation of Mr. Xi as a “key” Chinese leader and the consolidation of his ideas as China’s official basic doctrine. Party staff have repeated this slogan after a speech since the Central Committee approved the move last week.
Officials must show “absolute loyalty to the essence, resolutely defend the essence and adhere to the essence closely and continuously”. Official report of the meeting On the decision in Shandong Province, eastern China.
Mr Xi was already strong before the date decision, but it seems that the document was intended to put him in a new phase of influence ahead of next year’s Communist Party Congress. This congress is likely to grant Mr. Xi a third five-year term as party leader, in violation of the two-term model established during his predecessors. It would also add political urgency to its policy priorities, including a “shared prosperity” program aimed at curbing economic inequalities, as well as efforts to increase China’s internal technological capabilities.
–
–Handle history carefully
–The decision of history puts him in the position of the party with the leading leaders of the era Mao Dzeduns a Dens Sjaopings. Mao ordered China to face the persecution. Ding led him to prosperity. And now Mr. Xi is pushing it to power – this is a three-step description of China’s repeated increase in resolution.
Assessing Deng’s legacy, Mr. Xi was shown a difficult case: if Deng and his carefully selected descendants, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, were so successful that they justified the drastic shift to more centralized and authoritarian control overseen by Mr. Xi? On the other hand, Mr Xi’s claims that he is an economic reformer may suffer if he discredits Deng, who is still highly respected in China.
The resolution praises the Deng era for unlocking China’s economic growth and defends Deng’s decision to use force to Destroy democratic protests which spread throughout China in 1989. “Reform and opening up were an important step in determining the fate of modern China,” he says.
However, the resolution also makes it clear that the problems arose before Mr Xi came to power in 2012: corruption, poor political discipline, mistrust of the party, as well as wider problems such as industrial pollution and inefficient growth. She points out that her closest ancestors have allowed things to move forward.
“The external environment has created many new dangers and challenges,” the resolution said before Mr. Xi took office. He adds that corruption was widespread in the Communist Party. “Some party members and officials have experienced serious crises in their political ideology.”
–
–The confrontation with Mao’s legacy also posed potential risks. Under Mr. Xi’s leadership, the party stepped up censorship to protect Mao from criticism. Authorities restricted research and training into the devastating decades of Mao’s rule. But overprotecting Mao can also be risky.
–
