With Unlimited Power Comes Unlimited Challenge
Commentary Xi Jinping has amassed a greater concentration of power than Mao Zedong, and has greater power to suppress domestic and foreign opponents than any Chinese leader in history. And yet the threat to his—and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)—ability to retain power faces challenges of an enormity and imminence that Mao never knew. These threats, ironically, parallel the disruptive ...
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