The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd writes that Xi Jinping has embraced an assertive nationalism that aims to put ...

The Chinese leader enjoys complete domination of party and state. But to maintain stability, he also needs to signal a ...

They’re set to govern for the next 10 years. The son of revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping spent his early life growing up as a privileged “princeling” within the walls of the ...

Xi was born into privilege, the son of Xi Zhongxun, a commander turned propagandist who, because his wife often traveled for her job at the Marxism-­Leninism Institute, was unusually prominent in ...

Xi Zhongxun was a successful general and governor of Guangdong Province until the Cultural Revolution. Zhou Enlai later resurrected and rescued Xi's father from ignominy. Reversing the elder Xi's ...

because his father Xi Zhongxun had fought side by side with Mao Zedong. As a «princeling,» Xi exudes a deep self-confidence, a composure, even a certain cold-bloodedness, say many people who ...

Born in Beijing in 1953, Xi enjoyed a privileged youth as the second son of Xi Zhongxun, a former vice premier and guerrilla commander in the civil war that brought Mao Zedong’s communist rebels ...

They’re set to govern for the next 10 years. The son of revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping spent his early life growing up as a privileged “princeling” within the walls of the ...

Sheridan devotes attention to his father, Xi Zhongxun. The elder Xi had been an associate of Chairman Mao Zedong and rose to the rank of vice-premier before he was purged in 1962. He was jailed ...

But what experiences have moulded Xi’s cast of mind? Sheridan devotes attention to his father, Xi Zhongxun. The elder Xi had been an associate of Chairman Mao Zedong and rose to the rank of ...