By Sushil SethUnder Xi Jinping’s (習近平) indefinite leadership of communist China, Beijing has apparently set itself a twofold goal. First: Xi is committed to enforce strictly the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with him as its leader for life. With Xi as the core leader, and the CCP his instrument, he personifies both the ruling party and the country. Thirty years on, with Xi as the party leader and the country’s president, the CCP’s control is even more pernicious in this digital age. Of course, it is understood by the CCP leadership that its claim about their infallibility is dubious and regarded as such in the outside world.
