• 3: Create a personality cult

  • Nov 1 2022
  • Length: 39 mins
  • Podcast

3: Create a personality cult

  • Summary

  • A look inside how Xi Jinping permeates every aspect of daily life in China, from the streets to schools to people’s phones. The extraordinary new levels of propaganda and censorship under him mean one thing: he is turning himself into Mao Zedong 2.0. Meanwhile, The Telegraph’s Sophia Yan deals with the increasingly grim reality of reporting in China.


    Archive used in this episode from: CCTV, CNN, Sky News, BBC News


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    Read How to build a democratic dictatorship, by Sophia Yan |

    Read more from Sophia Yan: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/s/sk-so/sophia-yan/ |

    Read more of The Telegraph's coverage of China: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/china/ |

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