Coronavirus: Xi Jinping displays his personal and authoritarian power

From our correspondent in Beijing

Faced with the " virus demon ", "the Red Emperor" speaks in the first person. Thirteen times, Xi Jinping used the imperative " I " in his speech sounding the charge against the epidemic of coronavirus which is shaking up China and making the planet tremble. As of January 7, " I chaired a meeting of the Politburo standing committee, and demanded the control and prevention of the new pneumonia, " said the Chinese president during a new emergency meeting of the holy of Communist regime saints, a month later, February 3. This long litany of measures published a posteriori by the official magazine Qiushi sounds like a self-justification of the most authoritarian leader since Mao, faced with the biggest crisis since he came to power in 2013.

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