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Chinese President Xi Jinping's Tough Childhood Revealed in New Book: Excerpt
Xi Jinping's home life and formative influences are revealed in this excerpt from Joseph Torigian's biography on Xi Zhongxun, ...
The Party’s Interests Come First — the political upbringing of Xi Jinping
The first biography in English of China’s president’s father highlights how even reformers bow to state ideology ...
Is Chinese President Xi Jinping on his way out?
Over the past few months, unprecedented developments point to the potential, and potentially imminent, fall of China’s ...
Is Xi Jinping's dream of being China's 'president for life' unravelling?
After over a decade of unchallenged authority, Xi Jinping is showing signs of stepping back. From skipping key summits like ...
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Xi Jinping’s Costly Inheritance: How His Father’s Travails Defined China’s Leader—and the Country He Rules - Foreign Affairs
In 1980, Xi Zhongxun, a major Chinese Communist Party heavyweight and the father of the current Chinese leader Xi Jinping, visited one of the premier tourist attractions of central eastern Iowa: the ...
‘The Party’s Interests Come First’ Review: First-Generation Revolutionary
Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...
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Xi Jinping masters “The Art of the Stall”
China’s Xi Jinping appears to have played his hand well in the face of hostility and threats from Donald Trump. But at home, ...
The fading power of Xi Jinping
In a system built on secrecy, no one knows the reality behind the scenes, but there are signs China’s leader could be in political trouble ...