Here's a Window Into How Xi Has Reshaped China
- Study of top party newspaper demonstrates president’s control
- Leader’s name, policies eclipse predecessors in People’s Daily
China's president Xi Jinping.
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How has President Xi Jinping reshaped China’s political discussion over the past five years? The People’s Daily provides one window.
Xi’s name, slogans and policies have come to dominate the pages of the Communist Party’s self-described mouthpiece since he took power in late 2012, according to an analysis by Qian Gang, director of the University of Hong Kong’s China Media Project. That is a pointer to the president’s clout as he approaches a leadership reshuffle later this year, and provides clues about the country’s future direction.