Xi Jinping- his path to power

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    October 22, 2022 4:06 PM CDT

    Xi Jinping’s path to power: From outcast to ‘emperor’

    Foreign diplomats who have observed Xi in person credit a retail political savvy as key to his success. “He’s got the full suite of political skills — he knows how to play a room, he knows how to play on people’s emotions,” said Kerry Brown, former first secretary at the British embassy in Beijing, now director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. “That combination is more than adequate to explain exactly why he is where he is.”

    Xi “really knows the politics so well partly because he grew up in [the CCP leadership compound] Zhongnanhai until he was 13,” said Cheng Li, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. “He has a great sense of timing, and when to move and when to not move.”

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