CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING TAKES PBSC MEMBERS TO VISIT NEW CCP MUSEUM ON JUNE 18

Chinese President Xi Jinping took a dozen Politburo members on June 18 to the new Museum of the Communist Party of China. Xinhua (June 18) quoted him as saying“It is necessary to study and review the Party's history…and draw strength from its history to forge ahead.” The Xinhua report mentioned Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) members Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan as among those who accompanied Xi Jinping. It added that while there the leaders reviewed the Party admission oath.

(Comment: The Wall Street Journal  (June 15) made the following comments on the new, revised Party History: "Past editions of ‘A Short History of the Chinese Communist Party,’ an authoritative text for general audiences, devoted hefty passages to Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward.”; “The revised version, published in February, excises the earlier edition’s conclusion about the program and its fallout: ‘This bitter historical lesson shouldn’t be forgotten.”; "The new version also dropped detailed discussions of Mao’s mistakes in launching the Cultural Revolution, a series of purges against “counterrevolutionary elements” that ravaged Chinese society and left as many as millions of people dead."; "Instead, it focuses mainly on China’s industrial, technological and diplomatic achievements during that decade."; “Chapters were added that describe Mr Xi as a visionary statesman whose authority as the party’s ‘core’ leader must be upheld.” and “’ Amid ten thousand majestic mountains, there must be the main peak,’ reads the updated book, which devotes more than one-quarter of its 531 pages to Mr. Xi’s policies and achievements.”)






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