20200729 Gorbachev Xi

The one policy Chinese President Xi Jinping has stuck to ferociously during his tenure is to strengthen the rule of the Communist Party so as to avoid the fate of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. (Nikkei Montage/Source photo by AP) 

Xi's Gorbachev obsession put China on a Soviet path

Efforts to strengthen Communist Party rule has only backfired

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