Xi Jinping, China's president, attends a session at the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday, June 29, 2019. Disputes over wording on climate change and trade are unresolved shortly before Group of 20 leaders are due to release a communique from their summit in Japan, raising the risk of a very watered-down document or no statement at all. Photographer: Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool via Bloomberg

Financial Times perspective: China goes Mao with Xi personality cult

"A one-party state, combined with ritual veneration of the leader, is a recipe for misrule," writes Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times.

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14 Sept 2021, 10:01 am

Worth investing time in today is the latest Gideon Rachman column, republished below. For the past 15 years, Rachman has been the Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator at our UK partners, the Financial Times. He joined them after spending a decade and a half at the equally respected London publication The Economist. Rachman, whose remit is to deliver a single column weekly, is at his best when interpreting global trends he spends lots of time reflecting upon. His warning in the piece below on implications for the rest of the world (Naspers/Prosus shareholders included) of the personality cult around China's president-for-life Xi Jinping must be taken seriously. – Alec Hogg

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