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Xi is also reconstructing school and university curricula to focus on CCP dogma and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/9\/1\/chinas-pupils-get-schooled-in-xi-jinping-thought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xi Jinping thought<\/a>\u2019, and has striven to build support in the \u2018masses\u2019 beyond the party to return China to Mao-era party verities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, Xi anticipates, an unstoppable demand from inside and outside the CCP will insist on his reappointment for a further five-year term and effectively for another decade, at the 2022 party congress, which will also fully endorse his top priority: to \u2018stay true to the Party\u2019s founding mission\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The politburo has&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2021\/0901\/c90000-9890383.html\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that the sixth plenum of the 19th party congress will meet in November, because, \u2018A review of the major achievements made and the historical experience accumulated during the Party\u2019s 100 years of endeavor is needed for the new course of fully building a modern socialist country \u2026 and for upholding General Secretary Xi Jinping\u2019s core position at the CPC Central Committee and in the whole Party, as well as the authority of the Party\u2019s Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please click here to read the full \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/helmsman-xi-takes-china-back-to-the-future\/\">Helmsman Xi takes China back to the future<\/a>\u201d article published at The Strategist, written by Griffith Asia Institute Industry Fellow, Rowan Callick.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROWAN CALLICK | The general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, has been inspired by his own scrupulously scripted celebrations of the party\u2019s centenary in July to drive China back towards the future. 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