Xi Jinping's Rise To Power

Xi Jinping and his rise to Chinese presidency began in Beijing during China’s reforms under Mao Zedong. His father was a communist party leader that was persecuted after Mao turned on his own party during the communist revolution. Though Mao’s cultural revolution did not exactly succeed, it threw young Xi Jinping into the political world with concepts of pragmatism and bureaucratic ideas. He moved to the southeastern part of China where he developed the economic and political roots that set him on the track to becoming the chief of the communist party in 2007, and then the vice president of China in 2008. Xi Jinping during his presidential campaign, appeared as a “liberal” leader because of his disapproval of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. In 2013,

In the time of Mao’s China, Mao had by his side huge followings of citizens from students to elders that used force to shape the public to accept him and his views. After he turned on his own party, he purged members of it who were also prospective threats to his power for being too “western” and not radical enough. Mao was able to wipe out all of his possible challengers by exposing domestic threats and remaining in supreme control until his death in 1976. Xi Jinping, having only been in office for four years, has used his power in both the communist party and China’s government to topple over 1.5 million “corrupt” officials since the beginning of his presidency. A good example of this is his accusation of Sun Zhengcai who was a rising threat to Xi’s power in the party. Just like the people who were accused of being realists, lawmakers and the general Chinese public are afraid of speaking out against the unjustified anti-corruption plans from the communist party because of fear of the government taking action against