The meaning of the man behind China’s ideology
Why Wang Huning is a name to remember
THERE is really only one intellectual pursuit as unhealthy as a burning drive to reach the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, and that is a morbid fascination with the apparatchiks—their faces pasty and most of their hair unnaturally black—that compose it. But bear with this column. For in the new seven-man line-up at the top of China’s leadership that was unveiled last week is a striking character: a 62-year-old, Wang Huning.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “The rise and rise of Wang Huning”
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