Xi Compared to Pope Francis

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Chinese politics | The People's Pope; Two books explore the meaning of Xi Jinping. Economist, Jul 23, 2016.
http://www.economist.com/news/bo ... inping-peoples-pope

Quote:

"He [Kerry Brown] compares Mr Xi's role to that of the pope * * * It is somewhat easier, however, to understand how the pope wants to reform the church than it is to make out how Mr Xi intends to change the party, and his country.

"Mr Xi has 'totally ruled out' any option other than orthodox socialism, he [Lam] writes.

"Failure to reform may eventually cause even greater instability, many analysts believe. But if Mr Xi agrees with them [analysts], he appears to think that on his watch, at least, repression will ensure that the party is obeyed. Given that the main mission entrusted to him by the party is an impossible one—keeping a one-party dictatorship in place for ever—he has few good options.

Note:
(a) This is a review of two books, both on Xi Jinping. One author is Kerry Brown (male) and the other
(i) "Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London. * * * Educated at Cambridge (MA), London (Post Graduate Diploma in Chinese with Distinction) and Leeds Universities (Ph D)"
Kerry Brown's own website, undated.
http://www.kerry-brown.co.uk/

Upon seeing "Cambridge (MA)," I thought that was Cambridge, Massachusetts (whose shorthand notation may be MA or Mass). But it is not; instead he meant he received a master's degree from University of Cambridge in UK. He is a Briton (born and raised there), rather than an American who emigrated to UK.
(ii) Willy Wo-Lap LAM  [林和立]. Washington DC: The James Foundation, undated
http://www.jamestown.org/details ... D=60&no_cache=1
("Dr Willy Wo-Lap Lam is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He is an Adjunct Professor [zh.wikipedia.org says: '香港中文大學歷史系客席教授' but I do not think 'adjunct' means 客席] at the Center for China Studies, the History Department and the Program of Master's in Global Political Economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong")

(b) "A dwindling band of optimists pin their hopes [on next year's party congress. If Xi emerges a victor,] Mr Xi may begin to do what he has said he wants to do: let market forces hold sway and put 'power in a cage' of impartial law."
(i) put power in a cage  将权力关进笼子 (or 关权入笼 for short)
(ii) A cage (constructed with or made) of impartial law.

(c) Lam "describes Mr Xi as more 'a disciple of Mao' than of Deng Xiaoping * * * Mr Brown suggests that analysts may be wrong to set much store by Mr Xi's individual will. 'The party is the power in China,' he writes. Mr Xi is 'only powerful through it, operating within the limits it sets. On this basis, he is no Mao.' "
(i) store (n): "VALUE, IMPORTANCE <set great store by a partner's opinion>"
(ii) store (n): "phrase[:] set (or lay or put) store by (or on)  Consider (something) to be of a particular degree of importance or value"
http://www.oxforddictionaries.co ... rican_english/store

In other words, Oxforddictionaries.com does not define "store" in this sense, but chooses to explain the phrase (a different approach, that is).