Books by and about Chinese President Xi Jinping fill a display at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on November 11, 2021. Noel Celis | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — A top Chinese official issued a rare criticism of the U.S. and Western democracy during a high-profile political press conference Friday. The night before, Chinese President Xi Jinping joined the ranks of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping and became the country’s third leader to oversee the adoption of a “historical resolution” at the close of a widely-watched meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, the sixth…