A young Xi Jinping
BBC: The thoughts of Chairman Xi
Xi Jinping is tightening his grip on power.
How did one man come to embody China's destiny?
There aren’t many 21st Century leaders who lived in a cave and laboured as a farmer before clawing their way to power.
Five decades ago, as the chaos of the Cultural Revolution engulfed Beijing, the 15-year-old Xi Jinping embarked on a harsh rural life amid the yellow canyons and mountains of inland China.
The region where Xi farmed was a bastion of the Communists during the civil war. Yan’an came to call itself “the holy land of the Chinese revolution”.
Now President Xi Jinping’s second five-year term as leader will be confirmed at the Chinese Communist Party Congress. He leads a confident, rising superpower, but one which jealously polices what is said about its leaders.
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WNU Editor: One of the best reports that I have ever read on Chinese President Xi .... from when he was young to where he is today. This is a must read for all China watchers.
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All of China's leaders have slept rough (huts, caves, open ground), laboured in the fields, worked in the factories and had military training ( militia).
So has every other Chinese citizen who was alive in that era.
The caves were no worse than the huts.
P.S. They all know how to sing ditties praising the Great Leader too. A modern day North Korean if 'transported' to that era (à la A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) would immediately fit in 100%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_yJBUaNnpY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fzfAtxklTk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=poB8o7dtFGc
Can't find a 1960s Beijing May Day celebration film clip. :(
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