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China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge

China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge

Iran: The Latest · Louisa Wells

November 24, 202533m 17s

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Show Notes

Xi Jinping is the most authoritarian and longest serving Chinese leader since Mao - and probably the most powerful man on earth. But what makes him tick, and what does is upbringing tell us about his behaviour today?


Joseph Torigian spent nine years researching this question. The result is The Party's Interests Comes First - a biography of Xi's father, Xi Zhongxun. Torigan sat down with Roland Oliphant to discuss what he discovered about Xi's family history, and how it's shaping China and the world today.



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