The Chinese leader may be one of the most powerful people in the world, but how did he get there? And what makes him tick?
abc.net.au/news/xi-jinping-past-china-today/101858752It was 1985 in Muscatine, Iowa. At the time, Xi held a low-level job in the Chinese Communist Party and was part of a small delegation sent to rural America.
"The story came to us that the night before these five gentlemen came to Iowa, [Xi's] father held a dinner for them in their home. And he said [to them]: 'Go to America and learn how to feed our people'.". But much has changed since that first meeting in 1985. Stories from Xi's past – like that of Lande's – offer insight on how he became one of the most powerful leaders of our time.According to Professor Steve Tsang, the director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Xi is consequential not just for China, but for all of us.
He was born in Beijing in 1953, just a few years after Mao Zedong's communist revolution culminated with the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Wong says Xi grew up "in immense privilege, at a time when millions of Chinese were living in abject poverty in the 1950s".
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