China’s New Leadership Unveiled
Meet the new leaders of China’s Communist Party. At the top is the incoming president, Xi Jinping. He’s 59, the son of a well-known reformer but most of the other leaders introduced at Thursday’s news conference are older and conservative.
The World’s Mary Kay Magistad looks at what that might mean for China’s future.
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