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    Xi Jinping ensures his future with a resolution that rewrites China's past

    by Alice Su, Los Angeles Times Nov 11, 2021 5 minutes

    BEIJING — Only two leaders of China's ruling Communist Party leaders have been powerful enough to rewrite the nation's history. On Thursday, President Xi Jinping became the third.

    His version of Chinese history is simple: The party is great, glorious and always correct. As long as people follow the party, China will rise to inevitable greatness. It stands on the cusp of greatness now, and one leader will soon make that greatness a reality: him.

    Such are the contents of a new historical resolution "on major achievements and historical experiences in the Party's hundred years of struggle" passed in Beijing on Thursday by the Communist Party's Central Committee.

    The communique says the Communist Party has "walked through 100 years of glorious history" and "written the most magnificent epic in the Chinese nation's thousands of years of

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