Saturday, October 14, 2017

Xi Ping is into theory

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s ruling Communist Party has agreed to amend the party constitution, expected to embed President Xi Jinping’s political thought, ahead of next week’s five-yearly party congress in which Xi will tighten his grip on power.
Kind of like writing a bible, takes lots of years:

Xi’s more recent predecessors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, both had the party constitution amended to include their guiding thoughts, but without their names directly attached.
Jiang has his “Three Represents”, which embraced private entrepreneurs, written in, while Hu, Xi’s immediate predecessor, had his economic doctrine of “scientific development” included.

Old Ping got some space for entrepreneurs.  If your theory is super special, it is named after you, like the catholics do with sainthood.  Their constitution reads like Wikipedia.

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