Kevin Rudd on Xi Jin Ping, China's new 'chairman of everything'

Kevin Rudd on Xi Jin Ping, China's new 'chairman of everything'
Xi Jin Ping reveals his new politburo standing committee on Sunday. (Image: Getty)
The Economist
By Kevin RuddThe changes in policy, politics and personnel revealed by the Chinese Communist party’s five-yearly congress, which finished in recent days, show just how radically China has changed under Xi Jinping, compared with his predecessors Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.His audacity is without bounds.Xi is smashing through long-established political conventions and plain old bureaucratic inertia to achieve his ambitions for both himself and China.Consistent with his deeply-held ideological worldview, Xi is determined t...

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