Xi Jin Ping - The Man With Power

Who is Xi Jin Ping, indeed? Since 2012, Xi has revolutionized China tremendously. This nation of 1.4 billion people, from building the "China Dream" to "Made in China 2025," step by step, Xi is making sure that China is no longer just a name on the map. His personal background, and his relationship with his father, his wife, indeed prepared him to become the leader of the nation, even the world. In this episode, Will talked to Adrian Geiges, regarding his new book called "Xi Jinping – The Most Powerful Man in the World." As the Moscow correspondent of German Spiegel TV Adrian Geiges covered the military coup against Gorbachev, the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the new Russia. In 1997 he lived in Hong Kong to report about the handover of the city to China. Then he studied Chinese language in Beijing and became the long-standing Beijing correspondent of the weekly news magazine Stern. His newest book (together with Stefan Aust) is the biography „Xi Jinping – The Most Powerful Man in the World“, which reached the TOP 20 of the bestseller list in Germany. It has been released in English right now.