The Red Emperor

<p><b>Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth.</b> He commands huge armed forces and runs a technology programme meant to dominate the globe. <b>His ambition is to take the place of the United States and to change the world order.</b><br><br><b>Xi''s life story is full of drama</b>: plots, purges, murders, a power struggle and a pandemic. The book, <b>based on new sources</b>, leads the reader from the poor, isolated China of the 1950s to the modern economic and military juggernaut of today. It reveals how the Chinese elite groomed Xi as a manager only to get a dictator, a man who has made himself into a new version of Mao and who dares not give up power.<br><br><b>The fresh material includes open-source Chinese coverage that the experts have missed, access to the papers of a deceased high official, information from personal friends of the Xi family and briefings from intelligence sources.</b></p>