Fareed Zakaria GPS “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China” Robert Lawrence Kuhn October 5, 2014 FZ: What in the world is the leader of the second e largest economy on the planet thinking? That’s a question many would love to know the answer to, ag but in a closed, secretive society, like China, it’s « all but impossible to know. He rarely gives ve _ 4 interviews, and the press in China is far from free. » | . _ But now we have something to look at. Chinese President Xi Jinping has a new book, entitled The j Governance of China, and it’s aiming for Ow worldwide impact. State media there reports that anu the book has been published in nine languages: _ a "> Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Japanese. > 3 My next guest, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, says it is a > 7 milestone. Kuhn has advised the Chinese “ government for twenty-five years, and is the - ot! ey " author of How China’s Leaders Think. Welcome. = KUHN: Pleasure to be here. | WHAT IN THE WORLD IS XI JINPING THINKING? CM FZ: First, give us a sense of who this man is for ers © : : eels § our viewers. Who is Xi Jinping, and why is he a " = . little different from China’s ordinary leaders? q KUHN: Xi Jinping has been involved in all aspects od 4 . of what makes China today. His father was one of - ~~) ie the founders of the country, truly a great a . ™ ‘ ¥ *.. | 9 revolutionary and a great reformer in the early ° —) w ‘J days. Xi Jinping graduated from Tsinghua : University [‘China’s MIT’], with a degree in 4 : 7 + , chemical engineering. Then he went through . more than two decades working at the local level. Starting in a county, and then a city, Xiamen, WHAT IN THE WORLD IS XI JINPING THINKING? working his way up for many years in Fujian aa “ , eS province, becoming the governor. Then for five years Xi was the Party Secretary of, the number oe] one official responsible for, Zhejiang province, which is the center of entrepreneurship in China. So that gives him a great sense of b