China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he commands the world’s attention but who is China’s strongman? How did he rise to power and what is his agenda? China specialists warn that countries like Australia were too slow to understand the challenge posed by the rise of President Xi. Prominent China scholars say that China has already fundamentally re-written the international rule book. The question is, how will the rest of the world respond?