The making of Chinese President Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping's Worldview Explained
Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongshun, raised Xi Jinping and his brothers and sisters to believe that they too were revolutionaries. So this is something that was drummed into Xi Jinping, even from when he was a kid. And Xi Jinping doesn't typically say a lot about himself, right? But he's talked about that experience publicly on a bunch of different occasions. How does he use that story? Chinese politics is a black box, mostly; it's so hard to find out so many different aspects of Xi Jinping's life.
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