Xi was a princeling - the son of one of Mao's lieutenants, Xi Zhongxun, who had been purged
and later rehabilitated. Colleagues described the younger Xi as humble, self-disciplined
and hardworking but otherwise unremarkable. Even on the eve of his elevation to
general secretary of the Communist Party there was little hint of what was to come. "It's amazing how China continues these lockdowns for so long - they are incredibly wrenching," says Professor Dali Yang at Chicago
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University who has been studying the zero-Covid policy Xi has personally endorsed.
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States frames support for Ukraine as a matter of defending a “rules-based international order” that is under attack by rogue authoritarians. "
The policies that Xi has applied - the re-education camps - it's about making them more Chinese than Uyghur," Mr McGregor says. "It's cultural genocide." Earlier this year, a Chinese friend spent 83 days alone, locked in a Shanghai hotel room. TikTok said misogyny was prohibited on the platform.
