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Yes precisely to your point of pro-West and isolationist factions that are splitting up the leadership. It does seem that from Xi's travels that he clearly feel

Yes precisely to your point of pro-West and isolationist factions that are splitting up the leadership. It does seem that from Xi's travels that he clearly feels secure enough to meet foreign leaders and leave beijing unattended. Jiang Zemin's people are throwing everything they got to hold on to essentially unlimited power and wealth. We can see that they also have their fans in the West who have benefited from this system setup by Deng. It's unlikely that Xi will compromise, I can see that he was able to hide his ambition very well, enough to fool other CCP princelings that tried to wrestle away control. ie) bo xilai

dmix 4y ago
That video you shared was really interesting btw, this is far from common knowledge. Maybe I don't follow China closely enough but it's interesting both Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao are still alive and kicking. Looking at the list of paramount leaders, having one extend beyond 8yrs isn't necessarily unprecedented... but Xi doing it clearly was to some people. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paramount_leader#/List_of_paramount_leaders https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paramount_leader#/List_of_paramo...