Alastair Gale was Asia security correspondent and Japan editor for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. He covered ...

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What he said to me was: you are right. And then he added: Xi Jinping is much more than a president of China – he sees himself as an emperor of China. With even greater powers than Mao Zedong ever had.

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