Xi Jinping tests eyelids – and bladders – with three-and-a-half hour speech

Chinese president channelled Hugo Chávez with marathon 65-page sermon setting out vision for Communist party

Some call Xi Jinping a Chinese Putin. Others a 21st-century Mao.

On Wednesday morning he was China’s Hugo Chávez, testing his comrades’ eyelids – and their bladders – with a three-and-a-half hour, 65-page sermon in which he outlined his brave new vision for the Communist party, and the world.

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