On Xi Jinping [electronic resource] : How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World

Kevin Rudd2025

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In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage—that of President Xi Jinping, who now holds near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for-life. Rudd argues that Xi’s worldview differs significantly from those of the leaders who preceded him, and that this ideological shift is reflected in the real world of Chinese policy and behaviour. Focusing on China’s domestic politics, political economy, and foreign policy, Rudd characterises Xi Jinping’s ideological framing of the world as “Marxist-Leninist nationalism”. According to Rudd, Xi’s notion of Leninism has taken the party and Chinese politics further to the left in comparison to his predecessors. Also, his Marxism has also taken Chinese economic thinking to the left—in a decisively more statist direction and away from the historical dyna...