num_pages: 160
description: China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades.In 2017 Xi Jinping became part of the constitution - an honour not seen since Chairman Mao. Here China expert Kerry Brown guides us through the world according to his plans to make China the most powerful country on earth and to eradicate poverty for its citizens. In this captivating book we discover Xi's beliefs how he thinks about communism and how far he is willing to go to defend it.
language: English
title: The World According to Xi: Everything You Need to Know About the New China
publisher: I.B. Tauris