As world eyes China’s economy, Xi still focused on consolidating power with the PLA

By World Tribune on January 14, 2015   BB Inside China, China, Exclusives, Intel Brief, NE Asia, Top Stories  

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com Despite reports that the China’s GDP is about to surpass that of the United States, much of Chinese politics is still governed by Maoist norms of the 1930s and 1940s. One of Chairman’s Mao Zedong’s most famous dictums — “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” […]