After Xi Jinping secured a third term in office, a lot of China watchers were quick to pin him as China’s all-powerful leader. But if there’s anything we can learn from Chinese Communist Party history, it’s that no one—no matter how powerful—is safe from their enemies. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about Xi Jinping’s rise within the Party, the power struggle between him and former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, and whether Hu Jintao, another of China’s former leaders, was publicly purged by Xi.
