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Jiang Zemin propelled China's economic rise in the world, leaving his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed

By the summer of 1989, a series of problems were threatening China’s stability. Soaring inflation was undermining the economy at home while the violent suppression of Tiananmen Square demonstrations had left it largely a pariah state abroad. Yet within a few years the nation rebounded – beginning two decades of…

The Conversation

Jiang relied on patriotism for China's stability

The late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's visit to Japan in November 1998 left bitter memories for the Japanese.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Analysis: Under Jiang, China projected a more open image

With his death, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin leaves behind a very different China than the one he tried to shape

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Jiang Zemin, former president who guided China's rise, dies at 96

Jiang Zemin, the unlikely former leader who stewarded China through groundbreaking economic reforms and served as a bridge between the country's strongman era and a more consensus-driven government, has died. He was 96.

Los Angeles Times

Jiang Zemin obituary

Chinese leader who oversaw economic growth and a stable relationship with the US, and encouraged his country to ‘enter the world’

The Guardian - UK

Former China leader Jiang Zemin dead

China's former leader Jiang Zemin, who steered the country through a transformational era from the late 1980s and into the new millennium, died Wednesday at the age of 96, China's state news agency said.

Bangkok Post

Jiang Zemin, former Chinese president, dies at 96

A gregarious leader, Jiang Zemin chalked up a list of achievements after breaking China out of diplomatic isolation in the post-Tiananmen era.

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China's Jiang confounded doubters, mended U.S. ties

Plucked from obscurity to head China's ruling Communist Party after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was expected to be just another transitional figurehead, destined to be a footnote in history.

Reuters

Xi Jinping and the Paradox of Power

What Mao’s failures reveal about centralizing control.

Foreign Affairs

The Return of Red China

Xi Jinping brings back Marxism.

Foreign Affairs

Xi Jinping’s pilgrimage to ‘red Mecca’ brings back the Mao factor

Yan’an is where Mao Zedong definitively – and brutally – stamped his supreme authority on China’s Communist party. Experts explain how Xi continues to shape himself as today’s embodiment of the ‘great leader’

The Guardian - AU

To understand what Xi Jinping's concentration of power really means, we must turn to history

After he secured an unprecedented third term as the leader of both Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country’s Central Military late last month, Xi Jinping led the seven-member Standing Committee of the Politburo on a visit to Yan’an. This is the CCP’s sacred revolutionary base from where the first-generation…

The Conversation

Russia, Hungary congratulate Xi Jinping on third term as EU and US remain silent

China's economy grew at a faster pace than forecast in the third quarter of 2022, but investors have reacted with alarm to President Xi Jinping's sweeping new powers over the ruling Communist Party.

Radio France Internationale

All the president's men: Why succession may pose a problem for Xi Jinping and China

Most attempts at leader succession in China have flopped, but Xi Jinping's norm-breaking practice comes at a precarious time for his country.

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Xi Cements His Power at Chinese Communist Party Congress – But He Is Still Exposed on the Economy

With a collapsing real estate sector weighing on a stretched banking system, the economy is Xi’s vulnerability.

The Independent UK

Questions swirl after China's former leader Hu leaves event

Questions abound after former Chinese President Hu Jintao was suddenly escorted offstage

The Conversation

Xi cements his power at Chinese Communist Party congress – but he is still exposed on the economy

Xi Jinping’s clean sweep in elevating trusted allies to the commanding heights of the Chinese Communist Party is a political outcome that has implications beyond China’s borders.

WEKU

Two new books challenge the sense of inevitable permanence of the Chinese party state

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower and Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s offer a look at the future of China's Communist Party.

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The 20th Party Congress and the Crowning of Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s maneuverings to ensure his personal domination in the CCP, long in the planning, threaten to upset a bedrock of the durability of the party.

Radio France Internationale

Is the Communist party's old guard tiring of Xi's iron grip on China?

By rooting out his opponents through merciless "anti-corruption" campaigns and supressing all forms of criticism, Chinese leader Xi Jinping now seems to be untouchable. Thousands of delegates are set to rubber-stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term as they meet for the five-yearly Congress. But between the…

The Conversation

China: Xi Jinping poised for a third term with no plans to relinquish power any time soon

It is a certainty that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will be confirmed in office at the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, currently being held in Beijing. At 69, Xi is also tipped to become the CCP chairman.

Al Jazeera

Is Xi Jinping China’s new Mao Zedong?

With Xi casting himself as a 21st-century Mao, China risks ‘arbitrary rule’.

France 24

‘Let it rot’: Once-flourishing middle class faces end of ‘Chinese Dream’

An ever-growing middle class has been emblematic of China’s ascent ever since Deng Xiaoping kicked off the country’s economic transformation in the 1980s. That progress now risks being reversed as millions of people in China face rising living costs, fierce professional competition, a real estate bubble and sluggish growth.

The Independent UK

Xi’s power in China grows after unforeseen rise to dominance

When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, it wasn’t clear what kind of leader he would be

Bangkok Post

Will Xi Jinping be in charge of China forever?

In the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Congress, which begins in Beijing on Sunday, President Xi Jinping is expected to be confirmed as president-for-life. If that actually happens, China's ascent to genuine superpower status will be at least delayed. At worst (from the Chinese perspective), it may not happen at…

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