Historic, and not in a good way. A callback to the public humiliations of the Cultural Revolution under Mao. Xi is explicitly becoming a dictator in the Mao tradition (obvious for years, but this is a swinging dick move).
Scary to imagine if we would ever treat a former US President similarly here..
I like my Hacker News karma so I decided not to go there ;)
I wonder if he'll disappear for a while like Jack Ma.