Who is Xi Jinping?
The Documentary Podcast
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The Threats Are Not Just to China, It's to the Survival of the Communist Party
By his second term in office, he's consolidated power, ousting rivals within the party and the newly empowered military. The economy is set to fall behind the rest of Asia for the first time since 1990. How might that affect Xi's hold on power? I brought together two people who keep a close eye on how Chinese politics and economics interact. George Magnus, an associate at Oxford University's China Center; Ling Lingwei, Chief China Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
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