China's Vice-President Xi Jinping stands on the deck of a yacht during a sightseeing cruise around Valletta in this February 21, 2009 file photo. Photograph by: Darrin Zammit Lupi, ReutersChina's Next President "Redder Than The Red" -- The Telegraph
The man who will take over as China's paramount leader next year is only of "average intelligence" and women find him "boring", a close friend has reportedly told US diplomats.
After winning several key posts, Xi Jinping, 57, is almost certain to take over as China's president from Hu Jintao in 2012.
A "supreme pragmatist", Mr Xi devoted himself to Marxist ideology in order to "become redder than the red" and prosper in the Communist system.
The revelations came from the US Embassy in Beijing after an interview with an unnamed professor who was a childhood friend of Mr Xi. The Embassy briefing has now been released by Wikileaks.
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