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DemocratSinceBirth

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3. The situation is different.
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 05:47 PM
Oct 2017

Last edited Wed Oct 25, 2017, 06:27 PM - Edit history (1)

As John Maynard Keynes purportedly said, " When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"



Chinese President Xi Jinping gets the Mao Zedong treatment to become most powerful leader since the founding father


China’s Communist Party has previously adopted a governing system of collective leadership after the 1976 death of Mao, whose personality cult crippled the economy and ruined millions of lives.

"In retrospect, it was an overwhelming assertion of authority to a degree unseen since Mao," Francois Godemont, director of the China-Asia program at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told The Washington Post.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/chinese-president-xi-jinping-mao-zedong-treatment-powerful/story?id=50688977
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