Why Does Xi Keep Purging Loyalists? Look to Stalin and Mao for the Answer.

Published on August 20, 2025 at 04:00 AM

China’s “bedside eavesdroppers,” the online posse parsing rumors for power shifts, have a lot to work with as Xi Jinping pushes aside his own political appointees.

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