The Chinese Communist Party's chief ideologue and its fourth-highest-ranking leader. In 2022 Xi Jinping put Mr Wang in overall charge of united-front operations, the sprawling network that aims to win the support of influential non-Communists both inside China and abroad. He is also in charge of policy on Taiwan.
"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."