Xi Jinping is cementing his grip on power and is expected to be handed a third term. Rana Mitter and Emma Graham-Harrison examine what he will he do with it
The biggest event in China’s political calendar opened this week. The 20th national congress of the Communist party will set the direction that China – soon to be the world’s biggest economy – will take in the years ahead. The man at the centre of it all is the party’s paramount leader, Xi Jinping.
As Rana Mitter, a professor of Chinese history at the University of Oxford, tells Michael Safi, to understand where Xi is taking China, you need to understand his past.