China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge
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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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Enjoyed the episode, but how do folks like me, born and bred in the US (1940) relate to the frame of reference not only to Xi Jinping but to his father. Their experiences seem to be totally alien. Yet the Nationalists who have a democracy (Taiwan) and those millions who've immigrated to the West, share Democracy's values quickly. it's like, who are these hundreds of millions Chinese who follow Xi Jinping? why don't they rise up and throw off their communist shackles?