Xi Urges Chinese Communist Party to Embrace Marxist Roots
By GERRY SHIH, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the 88-million-strong Communist Party to embrace its Marxist roots on Friday as he delivered an emphatic call for ideological discipline and a vigorous defense of party rule. The televised speech on the party's 95th anniversary represented one of Xi's most pointed and lengthy addresses laying out his orthodox ideology, and again repudiated the belief held among some observers four years ago that Xi's ascent m..>> view originalAustria Orders Rerun of Presidential Vote That Nationalist Lost
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