{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6583019ebbd71a00175001c8/692482e3e5cc28ec3bff0caa?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6583019ebbd71a00175001c8/1764003310898-94491a88-1802-4566-8ebc-d3d080ab813c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Xi Jinping is the most authoritarian and longest serving Chinese leader since Mao - and probably the most powerful man on earth. But what makes him tick, and what does is upbringing tell us about his behaviour today?</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph Torigian spent nine years researching this question. The result is The Party's Interests Comes First - a biography of Xi's father, Xi Zhongxun. Torigan sat down with Roland Oliphant to discuss what he discovered about Xi's family history, and how it's shaping China and the world today.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>► Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor</p><p><br></p><p>https://linktr.ee/BattleLines</p><p><br></p><p>Contact us with feedback or ideas:</p><p><br></p><p>battlelines@telegraph.co.uk&nbsp;</p><p>@venetiarainey</p><p>@RolandOliphant</p>","author_name":"The Telegraph"}