Control the past: rewriting Chinese history
The Intelligence from The Economist 
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Over four days in Beijing, the political and military elite are meeting <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/11/06/xi-jinping-is-rewriting-history-to-justify-his-rule-for-years-to-come" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">to recast the past</a>. The revised version will depict Xi Jinping as a giant of the stature of&nbsp;Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping—and justify his continued rule. More Africans are <a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/10/30/many-more-africans-are-migrating-within-africa-than-to-europe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">migrating</a>, mostly within their own continent. And <a href="https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/10/18/a-short-history-of-hollywoods-poison-pen-letters-to-itself" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hollywood</a> is examining its navel. It doesn’t like what it finds. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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