China’s Xi Mimics Mao’s Crisis Response in Sweeping Indoctrination Drive

‘Spiritual baptism’ campaign comes as Chinese leader sustains damage from pandemic, economy, U.S. tensions

Few of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s past indoctrination drives have been pursued with such scale while hearkening so directly to the Mao era. Li Xueren/Zuma Press

SINGAPORE—Chinese leader Xi Jinping is taking a page out of Mao Zedong’s crisis playbook to contain the damage caused by the tumultuous final months of his zero-tolerance Covid controls

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