Special to WorldTribune.com
By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com
Even as Xi Jinping is extending the parameters of his anti-corruption drive, the official media is building up a personality cult around the President that is unprecedented since the demise of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Since early July, the official media such as Xinhua News Agency and the People’s Daily have gone into overdrive extolling the virtues of Xi as a “great leader.” These Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpieces have not only quoted Xi’s recent remarks on lingxiuxue (“the art of leadership”) but also reprinted articles on the subject that the 51-year-old supremo wrote when he was party secretary of Zhejiang Province and Shanghai from 2002 to 2007.
A surprisingly large number of Xi aphorisms on leadership qualities bear the imprint of the Great Helmsman. Like Mao, Xi has reiterated that “the quality and ability of the leader is the key” to the success of the party and state.
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