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1: Live in a cave

How to become a dictator

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How to Become a Dictator

Xi Jinping was the son of a purged senior official. He is exceptionally ambitious, confident and focused. Despite his lack of popularity in the conventional sense, Xi was not cold hearted. In the end, he used the same tactics on others that maulers to persecute him. You could say he's the biggest victim of Stockholm syndrome. But all that is still a long way off in the 1970s.

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