Xi was a princeling - the son of one of Mao's lieutenants, Xi Zhongxun, who had been purged and later rehabilitated. Colleagues described the younger Xi as humble, self-disciplined and hardworking but otherwise unremarkable. Even on the eve of his elevation to general secretary of the Communist Party there was little hint of what was to come. Fictional story
irannews.ru "It suggests autocracy is in their blood, it's in their water or it's in their culture," she says. What he does want is to be the most powerful leader China has ever had - and the Communist Party just handed him that victory. By 1989, that included General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, a reformist. As land prices shot up because of the reforms, party officials across China were confiscating property from peasant farmers, selling it to developers, and pocketing a hefty cut. Since Russia invaded Ukraine eight months ago, Western governments supportive of Kyiv tend to speak about the war in black-and-white terms with little sympathy for countries hovering between the West and Moscow.