Prime minister of china biography books

Lee's powerful intellect is captured in a new book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World. It's a collection of interviews with him by Harvard University professor Graham Allison, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Robert Blackwill and Harvard's Belfer Center researcher Ali Wyne, while also drawing on other selected and cited writings by and about Lee. Now 89, officially retired and somewhat frail, Lee has mellowed with age—not unlike his creation Singapore, governed today with a lighter touch even as its citizens grow more vocal. Yet, as the book, and the adaptation here of the China chapter, reveal, Lee is as sharp, direct and prescient as ever. Though the volume was completed before China's current territorial tensions with its neighbors, it helps expose, and explain, Beijing's hardball mind-set. ~TIME Magazine

Graham Allison and Bob Blackwill have important questions to ask about China, America and the extraordinary impact of the relationship of those two countries on the rest of the world. For answers, they turned to Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first premier and one of the world’s most formidable geopolitical thinkers and strategists. The result is a fascinating book called Le

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Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xí (习).

Xi Jinping
Xi in 2024
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2012
Preceded by	Hu Jintao
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 March 2013
Premier
Vice President
Preceded by	Hu Jintao
Incumbent
Assumed office Party Commission: 15 November 2012 State Commission: 14 March 2013
Deputy
Preceded by	Hu Jintao
In office 22 October 2007 – 15 November 2012
General Secretary	Hu Jintao
Preceded by	Zeng Qinghong
Succeeded by	Liu Yunshan
In office 15 March 2008 – 14 March 2013
President	Hu Jintao
Preceded by	Zeng Qinghong
Succeeded by	Li Yuanchao
Born	(1953-06-15) 15 June 1953 (age 71) Beijing, China
Political party	CCP (since 1974)
Spouses	Ke Lingling ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 1982)​
Children	Xi Mingze
Parents
Relatives	Qi Qiaoqiao (sister)
Residence	Zhongnanhai
Alma mater	Tsinghua University
Awards	Full list
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Website	www.gov.cn/guoqing/2022-10/23/content_5721018.htm(in Chinese)
Scientific career
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