Xi’s mum did more than fortify his moral fibre. She also privately lobbied the party hierarchy to advance his lacklustre early career. According to Cai Xia, a retired professor of the CCP Central Party School now living in exile, the formidable Qi wrote to Hebei province’s party chief in the 1980s, asking him to give her son a leg up the ladder.
mandag 3. oktober 2022
Think Putin is a global threat? Then we need to talk about Xi Jinping
Like fearsome dictators throughout history, Xi Jinping has a tender side. He loves his mum. In a touching puff piece on Mother’s Day this year, state TV showed China’s strongman president strolling hand in hand with 96-year-old Qi Xin, a Communist party veteran and proud mother of the paramount leader. Many mums read fairy stories or sing nursery rhymes to their young children. Not so Qi. She taught five-year-old Xi about Yue Fei, a famously hawkish Southern Song dynasty general who had “Serve the country with utmost loyalty” tattooed on his back. This uplifting slogan had inspired his life’s work, Xi claimed.
Xi’s mum did more than fortify his moral fibre. She also privately lobbied the party hierarchy to advance his lacklustre early career. According to Cai Xia, a retired professor of the CCP Central Party School now living in exile, the formidable Qi wrote to Hebei province’s party chief in the 1980s, asking him to give her son a leg up the ladder.
Xi’s mum did more than fortify his moral fibre. She also privately lobbied the party hierarchy to advance his lacklustre early career. According to Cai Xia, a retired professor of the CCP Central Party School now living in exile, the formidable Qi wrote to Hebei province’s party chief in the 1980s, asking him to give her son a leg up the ladder.
