Cultural Revolution Shaped Xi Jinping, from Schoolboy to Survivor

> Mr. Xi has often discussed the seven years he spent exiled to a rural village during the latter part of the Cultural Revolution, including in a speech in Seattle on Tuesday, casting that chapter of his life as an uplifting story of a city boy who discovers the suffering of ordinary Chinese in the countryside and resolves to make a difference.

As this was the main point of the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside movement, I'd have to strike this as one of the successes of the Cultural Revolution.

Woah, this flattering article of a Chinese ruler feels like something I'd read in the Chinese government-controlled news!

Does the nytimes feel pressured to write these flattering articles about Chinese rulers because of the attacks from China in the past few years? [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers...