
Implications of Xi Jinping's Hold on Power: Former Senior CIA China Analyst Chris Johnson
Intelligence Matters
The Importance of Ideology to the Chinese Communist Party
Xi Jinping seemed to be trying to truncate his current 12 word ideological framework I call it Xi Jinping thought for horribly long name. That would have put him on a par with Mao Zedong alone right and from the Party Congress's resolution on the revisions that are going to be made to the party constitution where that likely would have shown up it did not appear that that had happened at least for now. So we don't really know whether Xi felt that was good enough or there was resistance to putting him on himself on par with Mao but it may be a distinction given that all of his sort of meaningful priorities will now be in the constitution.
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