China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge

Xi Jinping is the most authoritarian and longest serving Chinese
leader since Mao - and probably the most powerful man on earth.
But what makes him tick, and what does is upbringing tell us
about his behaviour today?


Joseph Torigian spent nine years researching this question. The
result is The Party's Interests Comes First - a biography of Xi's
father, Xi Zhongxun. Torigan sat down with Roland Oliphant to
discuss what he discovered about Xi's family history, and how
it's shaping China and the world today.





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