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**INFORMATION AND WORKS CITED** It seems after reading this that this could potentially be a negative for the rest of the world. Communism is well known to be a big con for our American government and military officials to accept. Most western influential superpowers also feel the same way, like France, Britain, etc. This might spell out future international conflict. He reads to be much like communist leader Mao Zedong. There won’t be too much of a difference in leadership transition though as the current leader is also much like this. Also, China is taking big steps towards improving its economy and its military especially. They are approaching their military from multiple levels, trying to get advice from other countries in different areas, creating new space vehicles (satellites), helping out with the UN, and participating in foreign exchanges. This is a bit odd, considering the amount of interest they took in their military prior to this (not this much before). This could mean many things, for instance the beginning of a plan to solve their territorial issues- simply take over smaller, less powerful countries. Due to their will to be different and improve foreign policies, though, that is very unlikely. They want to stay on most countries’ good side that they care about. Another interesting thing that China is working on is cyber war mobilization, which makes sense now that they have the number 1 supercomputer in the world. They’re coming up with organizations and institutions to prevent attacks on their networks and attack other people’s networks at the same time. However, for China, this change of leadership might actually be a positive thing. China, ever since the president who preceded Mao Zedong, has “grown up” with communism as their base. As you can see this greatly boosted their population and helped sprout their industrialization. It was a little harsh on the human rights and agriculture, but those have since progressed. Overall this could be a good thing for China. It also seems like the local economies are slowly being helped, though corruption isn’t. China’s infrastructure is also slowly being worked on by the current leader and should be continued by the new leader.


 * __Xi Jinping__ (Shee Jin-ping) ****
 * Will succeed Hu Jintao as the leader of China.
 * Communist... Pretty much born into it so he is a very strong commune.
 * Xi studied chemical engineering at Tsinghau University in Beijing.
 * Joined the Communist Youth League in 1971 at the age of 18
 * Joined The Communist Party of China in 1974 at the age of 21
 * Father was a top Communist leader during Chinese civil war.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Xi’s father was one of the founders of the Communist guerrilla movement in Shaanxi Province in northern China and former Vice-Premier.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vice-President, People's Government, People's Republic of China; Member, 17th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo, Standing Committee; Vice-Chairman, 17th CPC, Central Committee, Central Military Commission; Vice-Chairman, Central Military Commission of the PRC; Chairman, 17th CPC, Central Committee, Party Building Leading Small Group, all in the past 5 years.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A few years before a party congress in October 2007, Xi was not seen as the front-runner to succeed Hu Jintao as party leader.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">However, his political capital greatly increased in March 2007 when he was given the job of party boss in Shanghai after a pension fund scandal toppled the previous leader.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__In the Future__ ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Xi was named as one of the most influential people in the world in the 2009 and 2011
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The British magazine New Statesman listed Xi Jinping at number 4 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010"
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Magazines
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China is developing a larger army and navy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">J-20 (aircraft carrier) being tested
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Army Unmanned military drones
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China is already claiming territories in pacific and china sea (claiming resources to keep up with the population)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New generation long march vehicles are being created in China throughout the next five years- all have different purposes and different plans for orbits: speed, size, efficiency, and reliability
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Since 2006 79 planned spacecrafts have been set into orbit with 67 successful launches
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China is continuing their progression of technology, specifically in computers/computer science- they now have the #1 supercomputer in the world: the Tianhe-1
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This has greatly improved global outlook of China’s “supercomputing profile”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China’s army is also greatly improving- it’s had foreign exchanges with multiple approaches with many countries and received more than 50 major foreign military delegations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also conducted defense and security talks with 11 other superpower countries in 2011
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Helped out with the UN in peacekeeping and is taking part in different dialogues within frameworks


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Policies__ ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Xi is not expected to steer China in a sharply different direction from Hu Jintao.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">However unlike Mr. Hu, Mr. Xi may have broader support in the party so it could give him more leeway to try new ideas.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">His views on the West are difficult to ascertain.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Xi had to fend for himself during the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, causing him to come to hate ideological struggles.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Economy__ ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China”s economy will still grow at a rate of 7-8% in 2020
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Xi has made economic growth his party’s main business.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2009, Xi toured countries with emerging markets in Latin America, in order to solidify China’s hold as the largest producer and exporter in the world, which is vitally dependent on Latin American resources and markets to boost their economy.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By doing this he prepared these countries for Chinese goods to be sold in these areas in the future.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"China's Aircraft Carrier Conducting Sea Trials - Xinhua | English.news.cn." 欢迎访问新华网. Web. 04 Jan. 2012. <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2011-12/28/c_131331893.htm>.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Hu Jintao__ ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Strongly communist
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Took power many times from 1990s until 2005 through today
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was known to be “airtight”- he didn’t like to discuss policy matters in public
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Made a few attempts at improving local economies
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He and his administration are credited with modernizing China’s infrastructure, China’s first launch of a manned space probe, and the success of the ‘08 Olympics in Beijing and the ‘10 Shanghai Expo
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He and Wen Jiabo improved policies impacting the public like enforcing minimum wage, helping housing become more affordable, “flexible” policies for migrant/immigrant workers in cities, and the elimination of agricultural taxes for farmers
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreign policies need work as he is taking his power to seriously- too aggressive
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Corruption hasn’t been with held enough, there is becoming a major wealth gap between the rich and poor, and his internal security budget has exceeded the total military budget
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hobbies include table tennis, singing, and ballroom dancing

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