Beijing—When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, some observers predicted he would be the most liberal Communist Party leader in China’s history, based on his low-key profile, family backstory, and perhaps a degree of misguided hope. READ:
China’s history, based on his low-key profile, family backstory, and perhaps a degree of misguided hope.A security official stands guard in front of a picture showing Chinese President Xi Jinping during the exhibition entitled ‘Forging Ahead in the New Era,’ showing the country’s achievements during his past two terms, ahead of the 20th Communist Party Congress meeting.
“I dispute the conventional view that Xi Jinping struggles for power for power’s sake,” Alfred L. Chan, author of a book on Xi’s life, told AFP.Another biographer, Adrian Geiges, told AFP that he did not think Xi was motivated by a desire for personal enrichment, despite international media investigations having revealed his family’s amassed wealth.“He really has a vision about China, he wants to see China as the most powerful country in the world.
His father Xi Zhongxun was a revolutionary hero turned vice premier, whose “strictness toward his family members was so serious that even those close to him believed it bordered on the inhuman”, according to the elder Xi’s biographer Joseph Torigian. At just 15, Xi was ordered to the countryside in central China where he spent years hauling grain and sleeping in cave homes.He also had to take part in “struggle sessions” in which he had to denounce his father.
That does not seem to have been obvious at the time though. Xi himself said he was not even rated “as high as the women” when he first arrived. Following a divorce from his first wife, Xi married superstar soprano Peng Liyuan in 1987, at a time when she was much better known than him. As a result, he is “thin-skinned, stubborn, and dictatorial”, she wrote in a recent article in Foreign Affairs.But Xi has always regarded himself “as an heir of the revolution”, said Chan.
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