@Zygnus @DisasterHighway @Mamako @2Pure4Purell @Kheapathic Xi's focus has always been party unity before pretty much anything else. He had a difficulty childhood and saw his own father purged and himself banished to a commune farm. So, he's had two specific agendas: 1) Party unity above all else, and 2) elevating the nongs out of poverty. This balance is why he's so powerful. Everyone in the party stays on his good side, and he has popular assent to do whatever he wants because every year another million people are brought out of poverty by the incredible economic growth that the Chinese have seen in the last few decades.

A strong nation is always formed by three successive and long lived leaders. Mao, Deng, and Xi will probably be those people for China. However, once he retires or dies, there will be a powergap, and historically, the 4th leader in this sequence sucks and ruins everything.