What’s behind China’s ‘common prosperity’ slogan
Sep 17, 2021
2 minutes
By Charlie Campbell/Shanghai
IN A SIGN OF HOW FAR ITS LEADERS HAVE DRIFTED FROM their revolutionary roots, the biggest shock currently gripping China is that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might be socialist after all. That’s because the mantra “common prosperity,” first introduced by Mao Zedong, has been taken up by current strongman President Xi Jinping.
Xi used
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