Despite being at the helm of affairs in China for more than 12 years now, Xi Jinping is still somewhat of an enigma for the world and may be even for a large number of people within China. Xi became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in late 2012 and then China’s President and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission in March 2013. At that time,
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