NEWS//Xi's determination

“The Government, the Military, Society and Schools, North, South, East and West — the Party leads them all!” (Xi Jinping).

In spite of internal and external pressures to change course, China's president has not flinched from his determination that his communist party will not only influence but control all aspects of his nation. This is the opinion of Jayadeva Ranade, President of the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy.

Ranade's op-ed in The Tribune, northern India's largest newspaper, maintains:

• Xi Jinping has expanded controls and surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), imposed more stringent security policies which mandate the growing use of facial recognition technology, and is continuing with the rollout of the ubiquitous social credit management system

• There is widespread domestic dissatisfaction in China, particularly among students, academics, intellectuals, and the privileged group of ‘princelings’ who have their own powerful networks of influence.

• A number of new, major ideological education campaigns… are designed to inculcate Marxist theory and “Xi Jinping thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era” in the people and the army, with special focus on the academia and youth, who are considered more susceptible to ‘liberal western thought’.

• The campaigns have an additional important advantage. They embed the ‘Xi Jinping thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics’ in the minds of 1.5 billion Chinese people paving the way for Xi Jinping being placed on a par with Mao!

Source: TributeIndia.com