The Scholar's Stage
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Xi Jinping’s decision to openly label the U.S. the source of China's ills rolled through the.
newsletters, wire services, and commentators on China this week.
Much has been written about this already; I have nothing to add.
I call attention to something else that occurred at the National People's Congress, an incident whose significance is perhaps not properly appreciated.
Deng Xiaoping’s “Southern Tour” mobilized support for the first slogan.
Jiang Zemin would describe the practical implications of this victory in these terms: We have no choice but to make economic construction the central task of the entire Party and the whole country.
This would elevate the fight against “peaceful evolution” to equal status with economic growth.
For a brief period between 1990 and 1992 the Party was divided internally on this question.
Xi Jinping began his second term with far greater freedom of action than his first term.
Xi's formulations on development and security were useful guidance; afterwards, they have been treated as party orthodoxy.
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