How the Cultural Revolution shaped China's leaders today
Chinese Whispers
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Scinping Is the Real Second Generation Communist Party Leader?
There is a paradox in that he has such a disruptive childhood, which to its no little amount of that is because ha chinese communist party. How is it that he came out of that period becoming more fervent a communist? I think something else that we need to bear in mind is that for what you describe as the core of the red second generations, the real princelings, they have a sense that they are the real second generation of the commonist party. They don't quite necessarily look at it in the way that we have been looking at political generations in china.
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