President Xi cherry-picks from Deng's speeches to support his stance on Chinese elite politics
BEIJING - Deng Xiaoping is not only widely regarded as the architect of economic reforms in modern China, but also respected for his views on the need for collective leadership in the Communist Party of China .
In his 5,500-word speech on Aug 22, Mr Xi called for the continued study and application of Deng Xiaoping Theory, for instance in deepening the reform of the system of party and state leadership and promoting intra-party democracy. “Comrade Deng Xiaoping advocated the abolition of the life-long tenure of cadres and took the lead in putting this into practice, playing a decisive role in the smooth transition from the second generation of the party’s central leadership to the third generation,” Mr Hu had said.
Noted American political scientist Susan Shirk saw a key Deng legacy as his efforts to decentralise authority, check dictatorial power and institutionalise regular peaceful leadership succession, after the excesses of the Mao Zedong era.But Mr Xi has been widely viewed as implementing one-man rule, a break from the post-Mao system of collective leadership.
“Xi has also defined himself as the Party’s ‘core’ leader and cemented his ideas as the guiding principles for the country’s future development,” he said, although he noted that Deng himself was a strongman leader, and the Tiananmen incident of 1989 would not have taken place without his authorisation.
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