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Ten Fun and Fascinating Facts About Xi Jinping

<p>Residents hold posters of the newly appointed chief of China&#8217;s Communist Party Xi Jinping and the disputed islands, known as D&#8230; to the Chinese zodiac. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA &#8211; Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA</p>
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
    Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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.