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Here's how a grownup leader answers a TV presenter's question about his experience as president: “People who have little experience with power–those who are far from it–tend to regard politics as mysterious and exciting. But I look past the superficialities, the power, the flowers, the glory, the applause. I see the detention houses, the fickleness of human relationships. I understand politics on a deeper level”.

That's Xi Jinping whose father, upon release from seven years imprisonment, did not recognize his grown son. Like an adult, his father then resumed his stellar political career and guided his son's until 2002.

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