my next guest, robert lawrence kuhn says it's a while stone.vised the chinese government for 25 year, and he is the author of "how china's leaders think." welcome. >> pleasure to be here. >> first, give us a sense of who this man is for our viewers. who is xi jinping and why is he a little different from china's ordinary leaders. >> xi jinping has been involved in really every aspect of what makes china today. his father was one of the founders of the country, truly a great revolutionary and a great reformer in the early days. xi jinping went to college, degree in chemical engineering. then he went through several -- two decades of work at the local level starting in a county and then a city and working his way up for many years in the province to become the governor and then for five years was the party secretary, the number one responsible for a province that's the center of entrepreneurship in china. that gives him a great sense of business. that's when i first met him in 2005 and then in 2006. seeing him work in the local area, and he's a p