Comparing Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong is "inane", scoffs Rebecca Karl, a professor of Chinese History at New York University. How the algorithm works irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru But they never made it this far. Twenty miles on, a rusty watermelon monument marks the tide mark of Moscow's advance. "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away" is an old, oft-quoted saying in China. It means there is no-one watching what you are doing. Others donned hats, helmets or Halloween masks to fulfil the brief. In Xi's China there is almost no room for diversity. Xinjiang's 12 million Uyghur Muslims are being forcibly assimilated. Similar programs are under way in Tibet and Inner Mongolia. list 2 of 4