“Xi Jinping has had a profound impact domestically and globally since ascending to power as Communist Party General Secretary in 2012,” writes Jeffrey Wasserstrom TIME100
domestically and globally since ascending to power as Communist Party General Secretary in 2012, soon after which he became President and since has developed the biggest Chinese personality cult since Mao’s.Belt and Road Initiative
—a massive infrastructure investment strategy to expand China’s influence globally—to starting a crackdown on corruption and ratcheting up one on civil society with the secondary goal of eliminating political rivals. He also did away with a constitutional provision aimed at preventing rulers for life and, after a cover-up of a new virus’s spread caused global harm, implemented athat succeeded in minimizing the disease’s domestic spread but has locked millions in their homes.
To assess Xi’s particular impact in 2022, however, it’s worth highlighting four things he has not done but might have: reconsidered the zero-COVID strategy that has been criticized by the World Health Organization chief as “not sustainable”; reversed course on Xinjiang, the site of horrific human-rights abuses; distanced himself from a warmongering Vladimir Putin; and, of course, named a successor.
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