Xijinping, it turns out, has a dream. The newly installed chief of the Chinese Communist Party told the world about it on November 30th: "I believe the revival of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the nation since modern times." He was speaking at China's National Museum, on his first joint outing with his six colleagues on the party's ruling body, the Politburo's standing committee. They were visiting an exhibition called "The Road to Revival". It covers Chinese history since 1840, the onset of the "century of humiliation" that began with the Opium Wars, and from which, schoolchildren learn, only the party could rescue China. The display inspired Mr Xi to reflect that "it has become clear that a weak nation would be the target of bullying, and only development can make it stronger."
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