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"The great emperors - that is who Xi actually looks up to, this guy is enormous in his ambition," Prof Tsang says. Nothing lends legitimacy to the Communist Party quite like Mao - the iconic revolutionary whose portrait still reigns over Tiananmen Square, where he declared the founding of the People's Republic of China. irannews.ru The fields are dotted with Russian missiles that have remained unexploded because of the soft soil. Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her engineers-in-training took the idea and ran with it - in some cases innovating complex headgear in "just five minutes" with any junk they found lying around. But Xi's China is not Mao's China - and Xi's ambition for himself and for his country far exceeds anything Mao ever dreamed of. Although she considered removing the videos, Ms Hartley says she is content that she decided to share the post. As land prices shot up because of the reforms, party officials across China were confiscating property from peasant farmers, selling it to developers, and pocketing a hefty cut. The two-minute video, from an account with about 1,700 followers, has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. In one school which they used as a base, their supplies, ammunition, and rubbish are scattered in all directions. These are not the traces of a disciplined force. It's evidence they'd been fighting in squalor and left in a hurry.