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The Mother, the Son and the War
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Author of The Last Man: A Biography of Xi Jinping (pub March 2027). An award-winning journalist and China-holic, I lived in China for 20 years, reporting for Reuters (2004-2013) and Financial Times (2013-2019). m-dashes all my own.
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