China’s Xi Jinping granted powers parallel to Chairman Mao’s

China’s Xi Jinping granted powers parallel to Chairman Mao’s: China’s Communist Party granted President Xi Jinping new sweeping powers “unmatched in recent decades” and equal in measure to those held by Chairman Mao Zedong, the FT reports (paywall). The party enshrined Xi’s socialist ideology in their constitution, a “historic decision [bolstering] President Xi’s political position as China’s most powerful leader in decades, [making] it harder for rivals to challenge him and his policies,” Chris Buckley writes for the New York Times. Clearly no one’s told Xi that Chairman Mao could never “make it with anyone anyhow” (watch, runtime 3:27).