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If China seems unstoppable so too does its leader Xi Jinping As general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China he commands over 14 billion people in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately poor rural regions where families still struggle with malnutrition

Today Xi Jinping faces a series of monumental challenges that would make other global leaders tremble a trade war with the USA political unrest in Hong Kong accusations of genocide in Xinjiang stuttering economic growth and a devastating global pandemic that originated inside China

But who is Xi Jinping and what does he really want To rejuvenate China and bring economic prosperity to all its people To challenge American supremacy and turn China into the worlds dominant power Avoiding both sycophantic flattery and outright condemnation this new biography by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges gets inside the head of one of the worlds most mysterious leaders Skillfully unraveling the hidden story of Xi Jinpings life and career from his early childhood to his rise to the pinnacles of the Party and the State they flesh out his views and uncover how he became the most powerful man in the world