Reshaping history: how an all-powerful Xi Jinping will come to personify the party’s priorities

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Hong Kong Free Press

This week’s Sixth Plenum will be historic. Which is not to say that it comes at a historic juncture, or that it is momentous of its own nature, but rather that the event will re-mould and reshape China’s understanding and consensus on history as a reflection of the party’s dominant priorities. Those priorities can ultimately be summarised in a single name: Xi Jinping. The Sixth Plenum will bring a tempest of political discourse in the form of a document called Resolution of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on the Major Achievements and Historical Experiences of the Party’s …

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