Evan Osnos

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with one of American history’s greatest statesman, Henry Kissinger, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 17, 2015.

Mao had a little red book. Xi Jinping has a little red app.

Global Politics

Once seen as a unexceptional Communist Party man, Xi Jinping is now positioning himself among the pantheon of the great — and most authoritarian — leaders of modern China. Evan Osnos of the New Yorker talks about the “rise of the Red Prince.”

Evan Osnos' new book sketches characters that defy stereotypes of today's China.

Evan Osnos’ new book shows a China caught between rising individualism and authoritarian rule

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