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...At the weekend, Xi cemented his position as the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, staying on as head of the CCP and its powerful central military commission for another five years....
...For Mao Sarin and his neighbours living along the canal’s proposed route, the future is uncertain....
...Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai also vanished from public view in 2021 after she accused a former Chinese vice-premier of sexual misconduct....
...However, he also draws some parallels with the Mao era, after the dictator purged leaders of his own generation and promoted younger cadres....
...Along the way Xi was married twice — the second time to a famous singer, Peng Liyuan....
...Peng Chun While GPIF and NBIM will let its views be known fairly publicly and regularly, the third asset owner on this list is diametrically different....
...The most famous current example is the tennis player Peng Shuai....
...Xi is a member of this “red aristocracy” by dint of his father Xi Zhongxun, a senior party and government official under both Mao and Deng....
...He also collected signatures calling for the National People’s Congress, the rubber-stamp national legislature, to impeach Li Peng, the leader who had declared martial law....
...When, a few years later, Chinese premier Li Peng, the leader most closely linked to the bloody crackdown on the protests, justified the actions, Lai was incensed....
...“Li Peng’s children are a clear example of this.”...
...Mr Xi, who is positioning himself to take a third term as president in 2023, views “unification” with the island as a historic mission that would cement his status alongside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping...
...The family of Mr Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, was not so lucky. Her father was persecuted for years because an uncle fled with the KMT to Taiwan, according to media accounts in Hong Kong....
...a convenience shop during the planned economy of the 1970s, Mr Liu became a tailor in one of Beijing’s most well-known clothing markets, which made the high-collared tunic suits popularised by Chairman Mao...
...“Everyone around here believes in Mao,” says Peng Kai, 28, a taxi driver. “It’s definitely a kind of religious belief.”...
...But there were also more personal attacks, especially against Li Peng, the conservative premier who was later dubbed the “Butcher of Beijing” for his role in the massacre....
...Life on the land has become both easier and harder since “Old Mao’s time”, as villagers refer to the period under Mao Zedong. Old Huang now husks rice by machine....
...Mao labels Peng the leader of an “anti-Party clique” and he is purged....
...But an alternative theory has focused on the identity of Mr Li’s wife, Peng Lijuan....
...(The most noted ditty is called “Uncle Xi Loves Mama Peng”, a saccharine reference to the president’s wife, Peng Liyuan.)...
...Chen Dongsheng, who married a granddaughter of Mao Zedong, was also mentioned in the ICIJ’s latest report....
...Wang Guangyi’s photorealistic depiction of Mao’s portrait, which loomed large during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, “Mao Zedong: Red Grid No. 2” (1988) hangs alongside it....
...Until the death of Mao in 1976, both regimes routinely denounced each other with vicious propaganda....
...(NYT$) Sex, lies and Chinese spies Dajin Peng left behind a childhood fractured by Mao's informers for an academic life in Florida only to become embroiled with the FBI....
...(NYT$) Sex, lies and Chinese spies Dajin Peng left behind a childhood fractured by Mao’s informers for an academic life in Florida only to become embroiled with the FBI....
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