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How to Deal with Xi Jinping's China

Asia Matters Podcast

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What's So Powerful About Mao's Biography?

Xi Jinping was sent down to the countryside when he was just 15 and a half years old. He lived there for seven years before becoming a Communist Party member in 1974. The story of Xi's early life has been used as an asset by Chinese state, writes Simon Tisdall. "I mean, it's not weird that people who have suffered badly are then grateful"

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