In the six months since he took over as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping has accumulated more power and more personal authority than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) whom Xi often quotes. Even Deng Xiaoping had to contend with a large group of conservatives at the top of the party, from 1977 to 1984, and was increasingly unable to quell the infighting of different political factions after that date.

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