TOKYO -- Monday was President Xi Jinping's 67th birthday. It turned out to be an important day for Chinese politics.
Xi Jinping's portrait on display at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Is he a modern-day Marx? (Nikkei montage/Getty Images/Ken Kobayashi)
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