All Xi’s men: Scheduled to open on October 18, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be very important because, for the first time since Mao Zedong’s rule, only one man will decide all appointments – party general secretary Xi Jinping, Francesco Sisci writes. Significantly, in Mao’s time, China was a speck in the international political and economic scenery, but now it is a superpower. Of course, similar to Mao’s time, Xi will have to deal with other power centers, the party apparatus, the state-owned enterprises, the military, etc. But each of them has been or is being reformed by Xi’s rule, and they now are institutions, not factions, as they were during Deng Xiaoping’s era. READ THE STORY HERE
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