Reading Left to Right on Ideology

Three years into the ascendancy of President Xi Jinping, it would stand to reason that the defining values of a fully evolved leadership style could be commonly read as a clear endorsement of one ideology or another.

Even today, employees of state-owned enterprises receive ideological training in Marxist-Leninist ideals, while the outlines of traditional Chinese culture are precisely rendered in official visits to the Temple of Confucius in Shandong Province.