First introduced in 2021, this phrase plays a key role in framing the power and legitimacy of General Secretary Xi Jinping during his unprecedented third term. It is the claim that Xi’s China has achieved a civilizational renaissance through a set of new ideas on governance and development and that the resulting new form — closely tied to another buzzword, "Chinese-style modernization" — combines ancient Chinese civilizational elements with an adaptive new Marxist modernity. Xi’s “n...
