China: 50 years after Mao's death: Xi is discarding lessons from the reign of terror
The ideological policies of China's founding leader cost millions of Chinese their lives. The Communist Party prescribed itself protective mechanisms against autocrats, but Xi is abolishing them.
The Communist Party of China (KPCh) is marking the 50th anniversary of the death of founding leader Mao Zedong. The party's Central Committee resolved in June 1981 that Mao's merits outweigh his errors, with a ratio of 7:3. The resolution also criticized the personality cult around Mao and his arbitrary one-man rule, and introduced measures to prevent power concentration, including term limits and an informal age limit of 68 for party leaders.
These protections have been gradually eroded by Xi Jinping, who is considered China's most powerful leader since Mao.
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