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5: What next for China and Xi Jinping?

How to become a dictator

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Episode 4 - Xi's Ambition to Take Taiwan

Episode four looks a bit at Xi's ambitions to take the island by force, if necessary. And what's behind all the tensions that we saw this summer with the unprecedented war games. Nobody can rule out the possibility of war but it is very difficult to predict when and how China will act. The one wildcard though is whether whatever is going into Xi's decision making matrix, all of a sudden changes.

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