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In the name of the father: what really drives Xi Jinping
To understand what motivates the Chinese leader, former Australian ambassador to China Geoff Raby argues you must look to his family’s past.
The 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China will be seen as a watershed in the reform era. Xi Jinping is now unchallenged and unchallengeable. The pretence of collective leadership is gone.
Collective leadership was introduced by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. Deng wanted to limit the exercise of power by the leader to avoid the excesses of the Mao era and have an institutionalised mechanism to transfer power peacefully between generations.
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