"President's of China Mr. Xi's swift reversal of more than three decades of apparent movement toward collective leadership and a less intrusive party has surprised both U.S. officials and much of the Chinese elite. In hindsight, though, the roots of his approach are visible in key episodes of his life.
They include his father's purge from the top party leadership, his teenage years in a Chinese village, his induction into the military and his exposure to nationalist and "new left" undercurrents in the party elite.
Today China follows a new political doctrine known as "Xi Jinping Thought," which combines many attributes of different 20th-century authoritarians. It reasserts the party's Leninist role as the dominant force in all areas, including private business. It revives Maoist methods of mass mobilization, uses digital surveillance to replicate Stalin's totalitarian social controls and embraces a more muscular nationalism based on ethnicity that makes fewer allowances for minorities or residents of Taiwan and Hong Kong.
"His goal is to make the whole world see China as a great power, and him as a key figure in making it great," said Xiao Gongqin, a leading figure among scholars who advocate so-called enlightened autocracy in China. "At heart, he's a nationalist."" [1]
1. Xi's Autocratic Turn Rooted in His Past --- U.S. misread the Chinese president, thinking he would be committed to stable ties
Page, Jeremy. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]24 Dec 2020: A.1.
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