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Xi Jinping's party is just getting started - BBC News

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China did not want another Mao, but the party did little to stop the rise of a more powerful leader.

Xi Jinping's party is just getting started 24 October 2022 Share Save Add as preferred on Google Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News BBC Is Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader in decades, another Mao in the making? Comparing Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong is "inane", scoffs Rebecca Karl, a professor of Chinese History at New York University. "If you're going to compare two people, it has to reveal something. It's like comparing Putin to Stalin or Liz Truss to Margaret Thatcher." At first glance, the parallels are striking. Chairman Mao, as he was known, was the defining political figure of 20th Cen

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