Re-elected Chairman Xi has (essentially) unlimited power. Addressing his fabricated version of the past and future is one of many problems China and the world will have to face.
The Chinese record of history has been re-written to support the Chines Communist Party’s political agenda. George Orwell, in his book 1984, described the rapidity with which the Ministry of Truth could adjust the past to suit present requirements.
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