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Does Xi Jinping still believe in communism?

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Published: January 23rd, 2025,
Last updated: May 27th, 2025

Our „China Perspective“ column is written by authors from the People’s Republic. Today’s article examines whether Xi Jinping and China’s Communist Party still believe in communism at all.

As a Chinese, I am frequently asked the following questions: How many CCP members believe in communism? Do you think Xi Jinping believes in it? The US ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, got the second question in one of his exit interviews two weeks ago: Is Xi Jinping an ideologue or pragmatist?  

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