China’s state media breaks silence on Cultural Revolution

The official party mouthpiece People’s Daily published an opinion piece on its website precisely at midnight Tuesday unequivocally praising the 1981 party resolution that condemned the bloody political movement started by Mao Zedong to enforce a radical egalitarianism.



Since taking power in 2013, President Xi Jinping has made frequent references to Mao, centralized control and deployed political stagecraft carrying echoes of Mao’s rule, drawing criticism from Chinese liberals and political opponents.