Jiang Zemin
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Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the fourth paramount leader of China from 1989 to 2002, as the chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as the president of China from 1993 to 2003. He was the core leader of the third generation of Chinese leadership, one of four core leaders alongside Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping.
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Aug 20, 2026
Lean Right
Posthumously used by Xi to rewrite the reform era narrative.
Market Liberals see this as erasing the pro-market reform legacy, undermining the credibility of CCP commitments to economic openness.
Aug 17, 2026
Center
China's former leader is being invoked by the Institute of Party History and Literature as the centenary of his birth approaches.
The pragmatic read is that Jiang's reform-era image is being selectively deployed to legitimize Xi and connect past authority to current party control.