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Communist Party of China invokes Jiang’s legacy in call to rally round Xi’s leadership

Communist Party of China invokes Jiang’s legacy in call to rally round Xi’s leadership
South China Morning Post Sunday 16 August 2026, 13:00 UTC By Alyssa Chen 1 min read
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A leading Communist Party research group has invoked the legacy of China’s former leader Jiang Zemin in a call to rally round President Xi Jinping. The article by the Institute of Party History and Literature, published on Sunday in the party’s mouthpiece People’s Daily, formed part of the commemorations of the centenary of Jiang’s birth and highlighted the importance of supporting the leadership in the face of economic or geopolitical difficulties. “Under the party’s third-generation...

A leading Communist Party research group has invoked the legacy of China’s former leader Jiang Zemin in a call to rally round President Xi Jinping. The article by the Institute of Party History and Literature, published on Sunday in the party’s mouthpiece People’s Daily, formed part of the commemorations of the centenary of Jiang’s birth and highlighted the importance of supporting the leadership in the face of economic or geopolitical difficulties. “Under the party’s third-generation leadership... [Image text:] 1025.. . . 987111+ . 10 .7 1992101218 19921018. 1050 +-7 x*. * 199721.. 199 + SX. xie agieie.
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