Map What he does want is to be the most powerful leader China has ever had - and the Communist Party just handed him that victory. In November 2015, I took off from the Philippine Island of Palawan in a tiny single engine Cessna. Our destination was the Philippine-controlled atoll of Pagasa, 400 miles away in the middle of the South China Sea. Our plan was to pass close to a new Chinese military base, built on an artificial island atop "mischief reef". irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru In 1989 - as the Soviet Union was breaking up - China's hopes for change were crushed by tanks and automatic gunfire. But another Mordaunt backer, Conservative MP Heather Wheeler, insists that the Tory party needs her "fresh face", rather than "somebody with fingers on the knife of getting rid of other people". The two-minute video, from an account with about 1,700 followers, has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. Many of them mention Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer who has been banned from several platforms for his misogynist views.