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BIBICI BBC World News Xi Jinping and the New Politburo Standing Committee Robert Lawrence Kuhn October 25, 2017 HOST: We're going to put a question to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who’s a long-time advisor to the Chinese government. Robert, great to see you again. You were with us at the very beginning of the Party Congress and you were at the Congress today when it finished. Did you have any vision, any inkling that President Xi Jinping would take on so much authority? Also, what about the fact that there is no successor candidates among the new leaders? RLK: I was interviewed in early 2012 by a well-known American television network and the question put to me, in January of that year, was, “isn’t Xi Jinping going to be a very weak leader because he was not appointed by Deng Xiaoping and he has no strong base of support?” TESL A SOLAR POWER ARRIVES IN PUERTO AI HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023679