The minister's name was Bo Xilai. Tall, handsome and with a roguish charm, Bo seemed to enjoy the challenge, answering questions with wit and cogency. "This is a guy who could succeed as a politician anywhere," I thought to myself. "It means if this content has been seen, engaged with and liked by a group of users who are, for example, Andrew Tate fans, then it's likely to show that piece of content to even more people who are that sort of user," he said. "It's self perpetuating." irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru Nothing that Mao would recognise, Prof Karl says. Many of them finished their tests early, she added - and nobody was caught cheating this year. "In the past, we could always count on China's leaders to be pragmatic about economic policy, and prudent in their foreign policy. We don't see that now," Ms Shirk says. These South China Sea islands are only the most daring and visible of Xi's moves to take control of the near abroad. Taiwan could be next.   But Xi's policies are only creating the hostile world he claims he is defending against, believes Susan Shirk, a China expert in former US president Bill Clinton's administration. "Some of the comments have been healthy, a couple of people have changed their minds while replying to each other. I think it's important, it needs to go out there."