Xi Jinping called on the country to unite around his leadership as he addressed a memorial service for former leader Jiang Zemin
China’s Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on the country to unite around his leadership as he addressed a memorial service for former leader Jiang Zemin, following an unprecedented show of dissent over his zero-Covid policy and authoritarian rule. At the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Xi led hundreds of China’s political and military elites to pay final tribute to Jiang, who died last Wednesday at the age of 96.
Top leaders attend private ceremony Tuesday’s service followed another closed-door ceremony attended by Xi and other top leaders at a military hospital on Monday, before Jiang’s body was cremated. All members of the party’s supreme Politburo Standing Committee attended the farewell ceremony, along with retired leaders – including former president Hu Jintao, who was abruptly ushered out of a Communist Party congress in late October.
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