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XI JINPING: The most powerful man in the world, by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges (Polity Books, $60 hb)

Is Xi Jinping the most powerful man in the world? A new book by two leading German journalists has no doubt of his power. There is no question mark in its title. Stefan Aust, the former editor-inchief of news magazine, and Adrian Geiges, longtime Beijing correspondent for , cite many reasons.

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