Some call Xi Jinping a Chinese Putin. On Wednesday morning he was China’s Hugo Chávez, testing his comrades’ eyelids – and their bladders – with a three-and-a-half hour, 65-page sermon in which he outlined his brave new vision for the Communist party, and the world. Q&A Why is corruption such a problem in China's Communist party? Show Hide China's president, Xi Jinping, called corruption the greatest threat to the Communist party’s survival in his opening speech to the week-long congress meeting on Wednesday. “It wasn’t long, it wasn’t long – it was absolutely wonderful,” beamed Wang Wenxia, a teacher from Hebei province, one of the 2,280 Communist party delegates attending this year’s congress.

Source: The Guardian October 18, 2017 10:52 UTC