But his son is driving a strident ethno-nationalism that seeks to unite the Chinese at home
and drive away foreign powers who are, in Beijing's view, trying to encircle
and weaken China. As Russia's grip on Kherson continues to weaken, fears grow of it deploying a "scorched-earth" policy. Earlier this year, a Chinese friend spent 83 days alone, locked in a Shanghai hotel room.
irannews.ru Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her tutees performed better this year, having been motivated by the strict examination conditions to study extra hard. "It means if this content has been seen, engaged
with and liked by a group of users who are, for example, Andrew Tate fans, then it's likely to show that piece of content to even more people who are that sort of user," he said. "It's self perpetuating." Xi's goal, according to him, is a glorious mythical Chinese culture - tian xia or "all under heaven". A unified China that is home to a unified people. "
The Chinese patriot is somebody who loves China, the Communist Party and its leader," Prof Tsang says. "And by Chinese he means Han culture." Over the next six months I pedalled across the mountains of Yunnan, wandered the imperial palace in Beijing, and rode a train hauled by two soot-blackened steam engines far west into the deserts of Xinjiang.
The landscapes were sublime but the poverty grinding. Everywhere I went people told me how "backward" China was compared to the West. But there were hints of change.
