In addition, under Xi, censors are more consolidated and centralized. Western textbooks are also banned and being replaced with new indigenous versions that emphasize Marxism. 1 University professors who are Party members have clear-cut instructions that they must defend the CCP in class if anyone criticizes it. Since 2013, the CCP has officially banned media and classroom discussion of seven topics associated with Western values that are considered subversive: universalism, press freedom, judicial independence, civil society, citizens’ rights, the historical mistakes of the Party, and cronyism within elite financial and political circles. Xi has also give up leftist ideology, striking fear into intellectuals, journalists, and private businessmen.
However, the recruitment of new members also now requires stricter loyalty to such standards. Additionally, Party members in general are also directed to shun any discourse that questions central policies. In a January 2018 speech, Xi called on all officials to remain loyal to the Party “at any time, and under any circumstance.” He has revived Mao’s practice of requiring all Party officials, including major provincial leaders and the Politburo, to engage in criticism and self-criticism and pledge loyalty to the Party’s central apparatus and to his position as its core.These rituals serve not only to butter up Xi, but also to inhibit other politicians from forming a synergy against his rule. His concern for insecurity is glaring during his interaction with people. Moreover, despite Xi’s apparent grip on power, he is preoccupied with shoring up loyalty for CCP and for himself. Xi, through this move managed to suppress any potential rebellion and succeeded in earning forced loyalty for CCP and for himself. By doing this, Xi instilled fear among those who were covertly engaged in a plot to waken Xi’s government. He equated it with a matter of “survival or extinction”. The prime goal of such campaign, according to Xi was to restore the confidence of populace in party. Almost 1.4 million party members were punished as consequence of Xi’s drive against corruption. Through this crackdown, he swept away his opponents from the party and purged his all political rivals. Moreover, Xi, for crushing his dissidents, launched an unprecedented campaign against official corruption and party indiscipline. Mao had to share power with powerful revolutionary-era marshals.” To show how “hands-on” he is, Xi has taken the new post of commander-in-chief of the PLA Joint Battle Command. As Tai Ming Cheung a professor at the school of global policy and strategy at UC San Diego observed “No other Chinese Communist Party leader, not even Mao Zedong, has controlled the military to the same extent as Xi does today. Interestingly, XI’s control over the People’s liberation army is even more complete than his hold on CCP and the government. He also handles internal security directly, thereby reducing any possible chance of mutiny. He chairs, roughly, eight of the leading small groups including national security commission. In 2017 Party Congress declared that “East-West North-South the Party is leading everything.”Xi has turned Chinese communist party (CCP) into his marionette. Politically, Xi Jinping has taken hold of all the levers of power. This piece is aimed at highlighting those political, social and economic moves through which Xi has managed to consolidate and perpetuate his dominance over china. It is undeniable fact that Xi Jinping has taken control over all the spheres of Chinese life, whether it be, political, economic or social.
Norwegian political scientist stein Ringen in his book “The perfect dictatorship: China in the 21 st Century “introduced an apt neologism” Controlocracy” to describe the contemporary China ruled by Xi jinping, arguing that its mode of governance has been transformed into a new regime radically harder and more ideological than what came before. The whole china, now, moves on his very behest he is, therefore, a sole mover and shaker of economic giant and emerging super power of the world.
Xi in order to cement and perpetuate his rule over the most populous country of world, under the garb of national rejuvenation and reforms, has foxily assumed an absolute control over all the institutions of country. Axiomatically, China, under Xi jinping has, politically, socially and economically undergone a colossal metamorphosis.
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