Xi Jinping cracks down, taking a page from Chairman Mao’s radical playbook

Xi Jinping cracks down, taking a page from Chairman Mao’s radical playbook

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com While China’s new supremo has made rhetorical pledges about following in the reformist footsteps of Deng Xiaoping, General Secretary Xi Jinping has adopted measures that smack a lot more of the philosophy of Mao Zedong. Mao launched in 1951 the so-called “Three Antis movement” against corruption, a wasteful […]