Xi Jinping wants to be more than a Mao-style strongman. He also wants to wield power through the deep state
In Mr Xi’s case, those predicting doom tot up the numerous enemies he has made in his first decade as the Communist Party’s boss. They note persistent anti-corruption campaigns that have ensnared hundreds of thousands of officials, including the heads of giant state-owned firms, police and other security chiefs, army generals and members of the party’s ruling Politburo.
In 1961 Mao had lost the trust of many senior colleagues. Sending some of them on investigation tours gave him political cover to reverse the worst policies of his Great Leap Forward. Soon, though, he was bent on revenge. In 1966 he mobilised the masses to attack and overthrow party officials and other authority figures. China calls that frenzied, bloody decade the Cultural Revolution.
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