Xi’s gatekeeper joins the top table
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You've glimpsed him for years, hovering at the edge of state media coverage of Xi Jinping at home and abroad.
But now, Xi has moved his chief of staff from the background to the foreground.
On Sunday, at 60 years old, Ding Xuexiang became the youngest member of the new Politburo Standing Committee...