3: Create a personality cult

11/01/22 • 39 min

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A look inside how Xi Jinping permeates every aspect of daily life in China, from the streets to schools to people’s phones. The extraordinary new levels of propaganda and censorship under him mean one thing: he is turning himself into Mao Zedong 2.0. Meanwhile, The Telegraph’s Sophia Yan deals with the increasingly grim reality of reporting in China.

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2: Order a crackdown

Xi Jinping is in power, and he immediately kicks off a campaign to clear up corruption in China. But he doesn’t stop there. Soon human rights activists, Uyghurs, and even former allies are disappearing off the streets with no explanation. Meanwhile, The Telegraph’s Sophia Yan wrestles with China’s strict Zero Covid policy while in quarantine.

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Read How to build a democratic dictatorship, by Sophia Yan |

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4: Build a superpower

A look inside how Xi Jinping has turned China into a superpower to rival the US, by growing its military and taking an increasingly aggressive approach to expanding Chinese influence abroad, from Taiwan and the South China Sea to spies in the UK and US. Meanwhile, The Telegraph’s Sophia Yan is forced to make a difficult decision about her future in Beijing.

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Read How to build a democratic dictatorship, by Sophia Yan |

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