China is holding its own summit with five Central Asian states at the same time as the G7 meeting in Japan. Xi Jinping wants to unequivocally show that not just the West is calling the shots. He degrades Russia to an accessory to his strategy regarding ex-Soviet states.
By Jörn Petring
In the midst of the Cultural Revolution, Xi Jinping read through Shakespeare, Goethe and Marx – or so he claims. How Xi, as a literary autodidact, appropriated the cultural literature of China and the world is part of today's grotesque personality cult around the CCP leader.
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