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What Happened to the Mao-Like Cult of Personality Centralized Personalistic Leadership?
The Mao-like cult of personality centralized personalistic leadership is something that was established by Xi Jinping 10 years ago. There was collective leadership under Gujintao, Xi's predecessor and Wenjia Bao. But if you ask when Chinese policies became more problematic in a kind of counterintuitive way, it begins under the Huwen collective leadership. That my book, Overreach, actually dates the shift in the policies of China to be more aggressive internationally and more repressive domestically to the second term of Hujintao,.
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