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Profile: Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping

03/11/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Profile, Xi Jinping

Tim Franks profiles the Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping.

In a few days a 59-year-old man will almost certainly ascend to one of the most powerful positions in the world. His name is Xi Jinping and the signs are he's about to become the President of China. There have been no debates, no campaign ads, and no forensic interviews. Getting a measure of the man is not easy. But in the course of this edition of Profile Tim Franks talk to some of those who have been closest to him.

Producer: Kai Wang.

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