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It’s China Again: What You Need To Know About China’s Strongman President
President Xi Jinping is making a bid for personal power and national revival.
BEIJING — This week President Barack Obama will host one of the other serious contenders for most powerful person on Earth: President Xi Jinping of China (pronounced “she jean-ping”). Just three years after taking the reins of power, Xi has already placed his stamp firmly on his country, his region and China’s relationship with the rest of the world.
The United States and China have been butting heads for years over everything fromcyberattacks to territorial disputes in the South China Sea. With Xi almost guaranteed another seven more years in power, Obama and his successor will both need to wrestle with China-U.S. relations in the age of Xi. Here’s what you need to know about him.
China’s Strongman Xi
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