What China wants
XI Jinping believes the West, in its disarray, is helping China to dominance
MONTAGE BY STEPHEN REID
While President Trump’s foreign policy might be obscure, President Xi has a clear vision of his country’s place in the new world order
Two figures bestride the world stage. One, President Donald Trump, appears at the United Nations, a body that his administration has hitherto disparaged and defunded, to make a claim for the United States’ credentials as global leader. The other, the Chinese ruler-for-life Xi Jinping, feels no need to show up at the UN in New York even though he was content to travel to Washington for the second summit this year between the two men. That is because he thinks China is already winning.
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