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Xi Jinping’s Chairman Mao Act Won’t End Well for China
Closing the economy and crushing dissent are pushing the economy backward.
Not exactly good company.
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Mao Zedong led the People’s Republic of China for 27 years. To call his results “mixed” would be too generous. Sure, on the one hand, he rid his country of foreign interference. But on the other hand, that process involved killing untold millions of Chinese in two nightmarish errors, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.