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Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Thank you. provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. When the big countries and regions for high tech are mentioned, Europe doesn't often get a look in.

But our correspondent says that is changing, in part because Europe's few early tech winners are now spinning out more and more new ones.

And Michel Roland spent his school holidays riding a tractor and helping with the harvest.

For him, there was no question of doing anything other than spending his life among vineyards.

We remember the life of a master wine connoisseur.

Thank you. vineyards, we remember the life of churn of leadership posts is underway.

Hundreds of thousands of jobs will change hands in this giant reshuffle,

moves that will affect every level except one.

Xi Jinping, China's ruler, is almost certain to hold on to his position, which will be confirmed at next year's pivotal party Congress, all of which means some people are already wondering what might happen a further five years on, by which time Xi Jinping will be 79.

Xi Jinping ripped up the succession rules in 2018 when he revised them to allow himself to be president for life. James Miles is our global China writer.

So coming up to next year's party Congress, the 21st,

we'll be looking for signs as to whether he might actually, in spite of that,

be lining up a successor.

James, for a number of decades, you've been a professional tea leaf reader of the Chinese Communist Party.

What sorts of things are we looking for and just talk us through the process?

Well, we're just at the early stages now of a five-yearly churn of the Chinese leadership. And this is always a very

stressful part of the Chinese political process. A couple of years are spent changing jobs at every

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