Alice Han
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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And part of what Xi has been successful in doing relative to his two previous successes is to build up this sort of cult of personality and to build up this nationalist fervor.
He calls it the great Chinese dream.
And he even said it in the summit, that state banquet when Trump was there.
He said, make America great again can coexist with his own slogan, which is the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
So he has these very patriotic, jingoistic language, which to some extent other authoritarian leaders like Putin and Modi have as well.
But he's been able to leverage that to have a mass appeal.
And obviously what's helped him is that he has now this external aggressor
in traditional Chinese communist terms, this paper tiger or imperialist power, which is America.
And only a strong man like Xi, who has the will of the people, who can see the future, he calls himself the great helmsman, he can help chart the course in these very choppy, difficult geopolitical waters.
And then the last bit, which I think has made him successful,
is that like Deng Xiaoping, he understands politics, the game of politics, and he has been leading these anti-corruption campaigns and promoting his own people in order to again consolidate his power through all arms, whether it's not just the party, it's also the PLA, it's the intelligence system.
It's really all levels of the party.
He has been raising a lot of loyalists and that, again, consolidates his power within the party.
So in some respects, he's a combination of both leaders.
But I think he's been very successful in building himself up ultimately as a charismatic leader.
Yeah.
Lots of people talk about policymakers in China as being majority engineers in the way that is different from the US where they're majority lawyers.
But the other thing that I think is interesting about policymakers is that they are very keen historians.
A lot of them read history and they have looked at American history and gone, actually, it's not that great to be everyone's enabler and sugar daddy.
You know, there's just a lot of these commitments that you have to make.
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