Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping unveiled his main supporting cast for his record-breaking third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party on October 23, 2022. Xi promoted rising stars Li Qiang, Li Xi, Ding Xuexiang and Cai Qi to China’s...

From political princeling to the People’s Leader, Xi Jinping is arguably China’s most powerful ruler since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976. Xi became Communist Party general secretary and chairman of the Central Military Commission in 2012 at the...