What are your plans this weekend?

Xi Jinping plans on becoming the most powerful person on the planet.

This weekend in China will have arguably the biggest political events in a decade, if not for longer.

All the big wigs in the Chinese Communist Party are coming together in Beijing for the Party Congress.

It's where they pick new leadership.

But this year is especially important because this year Xi Jinping will be confirmed as ruler for at least another five years, if not for the rest of his life.

And that hasn't happened since Mao said don't.

Xi Jinping is now one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, Mao on Earth.

When it comes to control over his own country, or Xi Jinping has a head start on basically any other leader out there,

that's what's coming on today's plane.

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To explain Sean Ramis from here with the Washington Post's China correspondent, Christian Shepherd, who is currently based in Taipei,

and is going to tell us Xi Jinping's origin story just in time for Xi to become maybe like, I don't know, Thanos.

Xi Jinping's entry into politics basically began at birth.

So he is the son of two really important revolutionary figures in China.

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