Pilgrimage to the Paulownia tree in Henan province is the latest sign of a personality cult being developed around the presidentTributes to the man now seen as China’s most powerful ruler since Mao have near in myriad (a very large number) forms: Xi Jinping tapestries,oil paintings, pop songs, and exhibitions,university departments even.
Now he has received a hardwood homage with reports that senior Communist party officials have made a pilgrimage to a tree honouring their country’s increasingly supreme leader.
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Source: guardian.co.uk