Very striking, given all the talk about Xi burying Deng's legacy, that he starts his speech by saying how the Cultural Revolution pushed China to the brink of economic collapse, and that it took Deng's reforms to set the country back on the right path. http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/zbggkf40/wzsl.htm …
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This may be the Party's standard formulation, but placing it at the very outset of the speech, and twice repeating mention of the Cultural Revolution and at least five times Deng, sends a message of continuity rather than revisionism.
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Watch what people do, not what they say?
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