As important as our nation’s economic strength and vitality clearly must be, it cannot overshadow the role international affairs continues to play in assuring our overall national well-being.
Over the past decade, Xi has become a transformational figure on a par with the two other giants of Chinese Communist Party rule: Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Like them, he has reversed earlier policies, in Xi’s case the relative openness that his predecessors had fostered. In its place, he has implemented firmer control of almost every facet of life, from politics and