- Family house robbed by student militants during the Cultural Revolution
- Mother forced to denounce father as an enemy of the revolution in front of a crowd
- Father imprisoned
- Arrested and sent to a labor camp for deserting the post he was assigned as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement
- Rejected for Party membership 10 times
To me it also demonstrates a big difference between capitalism and socialism. Compare Xi’s post-prison trajectory to capitalist countries, where a criminal record basically makes you a part of a lifelong unemployable underclass (unless you’re a millionaire, of course).
This is likely the origin of his greatest flaw. His deeply rooted desire for stability and trade maxing makes perfect sense in this context. This is the only man in the universe that can look at the nuclear launch codes and feel nothing.
Also his distrust/apprehension of more leftist, mao era policies and rhetoric