The Long March generation led by Mao and leaders like Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai is widely acknowledged as the founding heroes of modern China. They earned their right to rule China leading a popular people’s revolt against a corrupt leadership, wrote Mr Han Fook Kwang, a senior fellow at NTU’s RSIS. But not as well acknowledged is the Cultural Revolution generation led by current President Xi Jinping and members of the ruling Politburo, whose experience during that tumultuous period shaped them in a similar way and who are now leading the country.

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