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“Hidden Ruler” Wang Huning Steps Onstage

Of the five new arrivals on China’s top Politburo Standing Committee at last month’s 19th Party Congress, none has attracted as much recent scrutiny as Wang Huning. Wang was once the youngest professor in the history of Shanghai’s elite Fudan University, coaching its debate team and rising to head its international politics department and then law school before being recruited into government by Jiang Zemin. Reclusive and “almost obsessively