The Paradox of Xi’s Power
Chinese President Xi Jinping has now been catapulted into the Pantheon of the founders of the People’s Republic, becoming as the most powerful leader that the world’s largest one-party state has had in decades. But Xi's ability to shape Chinese society may turn out to be far more limited than he, his allies, and most observers expect.
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CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – At the end of the six-day 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the roughly 2,200 delegates decided to add “Xi Jinping Thought on the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics” to the CPC’s constitution. With that, it became official: the era of Xi has begun.