Is China's President Xi Jinping becoming the most powerful man in the world? Recently he's been making friends in all the right places - securing business deals worth billions across the globe. With one of the world's fastest growing economies and advancing military might – is China on course to take America's place as the world's top superpower?

On this episode of Nexus was…..

* Kerry Brown - Professor of Chinese Studies, King's College London

* Yan Bennett - Managing director, Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University

* And Dennis Wilder - Chinese Military Expert and Former White House Adviser