On December 6, Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded the late former president Jiang Zemin for being China’s leader during a time when it experienced great internal turmoil as well as “Western pressure.” Subsequently, Xi urged for greater unity under his aegis.
At a state funeral for Jiang, Xi remarked that Jiang had emphasized that Chinese Communist Party members should “always put the Party in the highest position in their hearts and always uphold and safeguard the party’s leadership in all tasks.”