
2: Order a crackdown
How to become a dictator
Xi Jinping's Tigers and Flies
In 2013, his first full year in power, 31,000 people are put on trial for corruption and misconduct. Zhou Yongkong confesses to committing unspecified crimes that hurt the party. He says he's sorry and that he won't appeal his sentence. As China's former security chief, he's the most powerful man in the country ever to be imprisoned.
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