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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on February 17, 2019, 12:26:16 am
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The man who was able to criticise Xi Jinping
By Ashitha Nagesh BBC News
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Image caption Li Rui remained an activist and idealist until his death
"We are not allowed to talk about past mistakes."
Li Rui said this in 2013, while reflecting on the similarities between China's then-new leader Xi Jinping and the founding father of Communist China, Mao Zedong.
Mr Xi, he warned, was echoing Mao's suppression of individual thought, and was trying to build a similar cult of personality - both things he had experienced at first hand.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47265411 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47265411)
Sounds like he is on the mark.
Sounds like he just passed on at 101 years old/young.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/obituaries/li-rui-dead.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/obituaries/li-rui-dead.html)