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Xi Jinping tightens his grip on China

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Xi Jinping tightens his grip on China

Who's the most powerful person on the planet right now? Xi Jinping, who just got a third term as boss of China's ruling Communist Party and got all his loyalists appointed to the CCP's top decision-making body. But having so much power comes with big tradeoffs, Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World. Zero-COVID is saving Chinese lives, yet killing the Chinese economy. And Xi is feeling the heat from his increasingly muscular foreign policy. Xi's tightening grip has massive implications for China's future — and the world's too.

Xi Jinping shaping China's chilling future

Xi Jinping shaping China's chilling future

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: All sorts of things going on, but I want to focus on China because that is the most world changing of the issues that are on our plate right now. Xi Jinping, breaking through term limits, securing for himself, not surprisingly, a third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. He is today, without question, the most powerful human being on the planet. And that should concern us in the sense that the system is incredibly opaque.