Xi Jinping is becoming a “core” Communist Party leader for a very different reason than his predecessors

Xi Jinping is becoming a “core” Communist Party leader for a very different reason than his predecessors

China’s president Xi Jinping is now officially the “core” of the ruling Communist Party, a sign that the strongman leader is consolidating his power to a level unprecedented since Mao Zedong ruled it with an iron fist. All party members should “closely unite around the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core,” said…