China's Communist Party issued a statement on Thursday about President Xi Jinping's "major achievements and historical experience."
"The Party Central Committee calls on the entire party, the entire army and the people of all ethnics in the country to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, and fully implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era," the statement said.
"Establishing comrade Xi Jinping's position as the core of the Central Committee and the core of the whole party . . . was of decisive significance in advancing toward the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
(The full statement has not yet been released.)
Analysts say the statement effectively places Xi on the same level as Mao Zedong.
You know, the same Mao who killed tens of millions of his own people.
The man idolized as the god-king of the rising sun:
The Associated Press said the statement used "unusually effusive language even for a Chinese leader."
"The decision to write a resolution on the 'major achievements and historical experience' of the party's first 100 years makes Xi only the third leader after Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping to adjudicate on the past," the Washington Post reports.
"In official party lore, he now sits alongside the founding leader of the nation and the man often considered responsible for launching China's economic reforms as an architect of his own epoch, or, as Xi calls it, a 'new era' in the evolution of the party."
Thursday's statement reportedly mentioned Xi Jinping's ideology "Thought for a New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" seven times, and the "New Era" 21 times.
Do you understand how big of a deal this is?
Xi Jingping wants to change the course of history.
He is mobilizing the police state of China to topple the Western world and become the superpower of the 21st century, and the Communist Party seems to think he is definitely the man for the job.
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