Understanding Xi Jinping: How China’s supreme leader rose to power

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We hear a lot about the personalities of infamous figures like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un – but relatively little about one of the most powerful people in the world: Xi Jinping. Who is Xi, how did he get to where he is today, and what does he want? To find out, Ros Taylor talks to Michael Sheridan, whose new book The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China charts the leader’s incredible rise to power. Buy The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Art by James Parrett. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.0	Welcome to the bunker, your need to know on news and politics five days a week.
0:43.6	I'm Ros Taylor.
0:45.3	We hear a lot about the personalities of Donald Trump and Camler Harris.
0:48.9	We hear relatively little about probably the most powerful person in the world,
0:53.6	Zeejing, the president of China.
0:55.8	Who is he?
0:56.8	How did he rise to supreme power?
0:59.3	And why has he done so much to reverse China's more open relationship with the rest of the world.
1:04.6	Michael Sheridan first reported from China and Hong Kong in 1989 and has been a foreign
1:09.7	correspondent for many years. His new book, The Red Emperor, explains who he is and what he wants.
1:16.1	Welcome to the bunker, Michael.
1:17.9	Thank you.
1:18.9	The thing that surprised me most about
1:23.6	your book was that a man of reportedly average intelligence and little charisma
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