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a. American popular culture has enjoyed worldwide influence for decades and is a key element of the country’s soft power. However, by the end of the Hu Jintao era, China’s leaders had begun calling for their country, too, to become a soft power leader, a theme Xi Jinping has continued to stress. The subsequ

r and director of the CCP Propaganda Department Huang Kunming oversees all media organs and has day-to-day oversight of the entire propaganda system. Wang Yang, another PBSC member and the chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has overall responsibility for the United F

f Hei- longjiang province and Party secretary of Guizhou province, has been director of the general office of the CPC Central Committee since 2012. ‘Wang Yang, vice-premier, is former Party secretary of Chongqing municipality and Guangdong province. At the height of the global financial crisis in early 200

W YORK TIMES « Need to consolidate power. Xi was not selected by Deng Xiaoping, the archi- tect of reform, as were his predecessors (Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao), and he was not elected by the people. Conven- tional wisdom had it that Xi would be a weak leader. In order to realize his Chinese Dream, Xi needs