Nancy Except that they had open-minded and pragmatic reformists in office in previous years. Premier Xi and his gang of fellow travelers in the Politburo are hard-liners with no ambition other than pleasing the Maoists in the CPC. Chinese leadership from Deng through Hu Jintao were pragmatic and open minded reformists who took the country from an industrial and cultural backwater and transformed it into the world's factory. Xi is pulling the country back into the Cultural Revolution and settling old ideological scores from when he and his father were sent down by the Red Guards. He won't kill the single-party state in China. But, his ideological purges and narrow policy window will eventually kill any faith the younger generations have that the party can lead them to a brighter tomorrow. Having lived there for several years at the onset of Xi's reign, the writing was on the wall from the beginning. This is the culmination.

Nancy Except that they had open-minded and pragmatic reformists in office in previous years. Premier Xi and his gang of fellow travelers in the Politburo are hard-liners with no ambition other than pleasing the Maoists in the CPC. Chinese leadership from Deng through Hu Jintao were pragmatic and open minded reformists who took the country from an industrial and cultural backwater and transformed it into the world's factory. Xi is pulling the country back into the Cultural Revolution and settling old ideological scores from when he and his father were sent down by the Red Guards. He won't kill the single-party state in China. But, his ideological purges and narrow policy window will eventually kill any faith the younger generations have that the party can lead them to a brighter tomorrow. Having lived there for several years at the onset of Xi's reign, the writing was on the wall from the beginning. This is the culmination.

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