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Ten Fun and Fascinating Facts About Xi Jinping

Residents hold posters of the newly appointed chief of China’s Communist Party Xi Jinping and the disputed islands, known as D… to the Chinese zodiac. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA – Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

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  • Elizabeth C. Economy
    Senior Fellow for China Studies

A friend recently dropped off a hot-off-the-press copy of Xi Jinping: The Goverance of China. It is a compilation of speeches, main points of speeches, pictures, interviews, and a biographical sketch of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Several different parts of the Chinese government bureaucracy participated in producing the book, which runs more than 500 pages. While I can’t do justice to all the material presented, here are some things I learned from reading through Xi’s musings and the musings of others about him.