Asia Sentinel

Asia Sentinel

Share this post

Asia Sentinel
Asia Sentinel
Is Xi Jinping China’s Brezhnev?
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More

Is Xi Jinping China’s Brezhnev?

Xi may be following the former Soviet leader’s path to peril

Philip Bowring's avatar
Philip Bowring
Jan 29, 2014
∙ Paid

Share this post

Asia Sentinel
Asia Sentinel
Is Xi Jinping China’s Brezhnev?
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Share

Is President Xi Jinping destined to become a Chinese version of the former Soviet boss, Leonid Brezhnev? If so, history may look back on January 2014 as Xi’s “Brezhnev moment.”

In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev, the leader who had begun the de-Stalinization process a decade earlier, was overthrown in a Kremlin putsch masterminded by Brezhnev, who owed his rise …

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Asia Sentinel
Publisher Privacy
Substack
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share

Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More