"But it deprives Al Qaeda of its core leader and the ideological cohesion that Bin Laden maintains".
Deng coined the phrase "core leader", and said he, Mao Zedong and Jiang Zemin were core leaders, meaning they had almost absolute authority and should not be questioned.
To be the core leader and the chief executive licenses him to play an almost imperial role in shaping the fate of the nation.
The core leader title marks a significant strengthening of Xi's position before a key party congress next year, at which a new standing committee, the pinnacle of power in China, will be constituted.
China's Communist party has given the president, Xi Jinping, the title of "core" leader, putting him on par with previous strongmen Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, but signalled his power would not be absolute.
Earlier last year, the Communist Party anointed Xi as a "core" leader, granting him a level of authority that had not been bestowed on his immediate predecessor, Hu, and advancing him to the revered ranks of Mao and Deng Xiaoping.
Xi, a populist strongman who recently reaffirmed his political authority by being declared the party's "core leader", said teachers needed to be both "disseminators of advanced ideology" and "staunch supporters of [party] governance".
The Nineteenth Party Congress, held in October, had the spirit of a coronation, in which the Party declared Xi the "core leader," an honor conferred only three other times since the founding of the nation (on Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin), and added "Xi Jinping Thought" to its constitution — effectively allowing him to hold power for life, if he chooses.
Veteran CORE leader Roy Innis Roy Innis is wading into a controversy as potentially explosive as the time when he marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr., and his organization helped desegregate the South.
And do we really need major gambling influence and a guy that has played all over the world with governments, so that he gets the casino licenses and charges up and down as, really, a core leader of our politics?
In effect, President Xi has become the "core leader" of globalization.
