Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping has been unanimously re-elected President of the People's Republic and General Secretary of the Communist Party for a third term. No one has accumulated so much power since Mao Zedong. How does the supreme leader of the greatest dictatorship on the planet think and what does he aspire to? The son of one of the heroes of the civil war, Xi grew up as a scion of the "red nobility", but his father fell out of favor and was imprisoned. He suffered public humiliation during the Cultural Revolution and was deported to the countryside, where he lived in caves and had to become the most Maoist to survive. He was refused entry into the party ten times, until he was accepted in 1973 and managed to prosper. Xi is far more popular today than his predecessors and champions robust nationalism. China is very close to becoming the world's leading power, and his ideological driving force is "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era." Without Manichaeism, the book by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges analyzes to what extent Xi's "Chinese dream" aspires only to national prosperity or also to world dominance.