torsdag 6. april 2017

How Xi Jinping became one of modern China's most powerful leaders

After less than five years as China's leader, Xi Jinping has become one of the most powerful people in the nation's modern history, outshining his immediate predecessors. "He is a powerful figure, he is the most powerful leader since (paramount leader) Deng Xiaoping, but again his power has limitations," Cheng Li, director at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center, told CNN. "China is not in the mood for a dictator-like figure." Read more