The resolution approved at the end of the plenum of the Communist Party rents the thought of the leader, incarnation of the “best of the Chinese culture and ethos of their time”, and will allow him to maintain his place to the outcome of the twentieth congress, provided in 2022.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CPC) is preparing to undertake “a new trip”, but absolutely not to change captain. As expected, the 348 members (197 members and 151 alternates) of the CPC Central Committee approved, Thursday, November 11, a resolution which, in the facts, allows Xi Jinping to remain in power, at the end of the XX e Congress of the party, convened for the “second half of 2022”.
“The Central Committee calls on the whole party, the army and all Chinese to unite even more closely around the Central Committee, with comrade Xi Jinping at the center, to fully implement XI’s thought Jinping on socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era “, can we read in the penultimate paragraph.
Secretary General of the Party, President of the Republic and President of the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping made the Constitution amend, in 2018, which limited the number of president’s mandates of the Republic, in 2018, which one responsible could exercise. An established limit, in 1982, by Deng Xiaoping, to avoid any Maoist drift. Elected Secretary General, in 2012, and President of the Republic, in 2013, Xi Jinping will not be forced to leave the power at the end of the XX e Congress, in 2022.
Any review would be a dangerous pandora’s box
On the fourteen pages (in English) of the communiqué published at the end of the plenum, the history of the party occupies a dozen. The MAO years (from 1921 to 1976) are mentioned about two pages, as are the years Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao (time from 1976 to 2012). On the other hand, the years XI Jinping (less than a decade) are entitled to more than seven pages. Similarly, his name appears 17 times in the communiqué, more than those of Mao (7), Deng (5), Jiang (1) and HU (1) together.
Unlike the two previous resolutions on the history of the party adopted so far – in 1945, under Mao, and in 1981 under Deng – that of Xi Jinping does not have any trace of self-criticism. A phrase summarizes it perfectly: “The efforts of the party and the people during the last century represent the most magnificent chapter of history, several times millennium, of the Chinese nation.” Deng Xiaoping had tried in 1981 that the balance sheet of Mao was positive “70%”. Everyone had understood that in his eyes, the big leap forward (1958-1961) and the cultural revolution (1966-1976) had been errors. We would look in vain the slightest reference to these in the current resolution. No more, no need to add it, that for the Tiananmen massacre of 4 June 1989.
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