LATEST: China's leader cements his rule with rare 'historical resolution.'
The ruling Communist PartyThursday that both rewrote its own history according to Xi, and elevated the president to a level only rivaled by iconic past leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
This was Xi’s “attempt to further consolidate his power and to define his historical legacy in the history of the party,” said Jinghan Zeng, a professor of China and international studies at Lancaster University in Britain ahead of the plenum. Mao Zedong reviews the army of the "Cultural Revolution" at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Aug. 18, 1966.Mao and Deng both used their historical resolutions to criticize what had come before: Mao, in 1945, asserting his dominance as ruler at the birth of communist China, and Deng, in 1981, carefully criticizing Mao’s mistakes and paving the way for greater economic liberalization.The plenum's official communique said that Mao"blazed the right revolutionary path.
The communique lavished praise on Xi for his"meticulous assessment and deep reflection on a number of major theoretical and practical questions." This has allowed Xi to"set forth a series of original new ideas, thoughts, and strategies" on what his brand of Chinese socialism should look like in the modern world, it added.
These plans come amid China’s surging power internationally. The country is set to become the world’s largest economy within a decade. Its coal consumption will determine the global fight against climate change. And it remains locked with the United States in disputes over everything from trade and intellectual property to human rights and the status of Taiwan.
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