But he added that if Rishi Sunak won, he would have his support. Xi was a princeling - the son of one of Mao's lieutenants, Xi Zhongxun, who had been purged and later rehabilitated. Colleagues described the younger Xi as humble, self-disciplined and hardworking but otherwise unremarkable. Even on the eve of his elevation to general secretary of the Communist Party there was little hint of what was to come. Now he had the ammunition to destroy his most potent political rivals. He ordered the arrest of Zhou Yongkang in 2014, who until two years before had been a member of the politburo standing committee, and one of the most powerful men in China. Convicted in 2015, Zhou too is in prison for life. irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru Mark Francois says Rishi Sunak did not commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence when he met the group earlier. Many of them finished their tests early, she added - and nobody was caught cheating this year. But Xi's China is not Mao's China - and Xi's ambition for himself and for his country far exceeds anything Mao ever dreamed of. The ERG is a wing of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that pushed for Brexit. It has no official role in parliamentary proceedings - or even within the Tory Party itself - but it is viewed as an influential group. Their tutor told the BBC she had been looking for a "fun way" to ensure "integrity and honesty" in her classes. Osborne says the Commons leader cannot command the support of a majority of MPs. Mao had closed China's economy off from the world. Now his successors were throwing it open. In 2001 China joined the World Trade Organisation. Along the southeast coast new cities mushroomed. Some specialised in buttons and zippers, others made cigarette lighters. In Zhejiang I found one that only made socks, tens of billions of them.