Financial Times
Sep 3, 2021 - 6 min
The Maoist echoes of Xi Jinping’s power play. Are we entering a new political error? In a series of highly talked about moves over the past year, including a crackdown on China’s biggest technology companies to strict limits on the amount of time young people are allowed to play video games, it seems as though Xi is reinserting the party into the private sector. Tom Mitchell charters this new flurry of activity and what it means for the Asian superpower's future.