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Observers have long concluded from the new Chinese Communist Party leader's tour to the south late last year that Xi Jinping is following Deng Xiaoping's heritage. However, the official media reports on Xi's southern tour speech was abridged.

Xi's complete speech surfaced online recently and disappointed many reformers. Xi made a noteworthy comment regarding the collapse of the Soviet Union: "In the end, Gorbachev whispered a few words, and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union collapsed. A huge Party was gone, just like that.

"The Soviet Union had more Party members than us [the Chinese Communist Party]. However, no one was a real man to take a stand and fight."