Late last year, China’s President Xi Jinping celebrated his 10th year in office by defying a longstanding two-term limit after Mao Zedong died in 1976. The glory of Xi’s power play was tainted by two events: the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns and the Ukraine war. As it struggles to recover, Beijing has […]
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Yun Sun is a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, where she also serves as co-director of the East Asia Program and director of the China program. The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that analyzes issues related to global peace. This article is adapted from a longer essay she recently published in The Catalyst. This is distributed by InsideSources.com.