In February 2016, the American Council on Foreign Relations published a report “Xi Jinping on the Global Stage: Chinese Foreign Policy under a Powerful but Exposed Leader,” prepared by Robert D. Blackwill and Kurt M. Campbell
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. The authors gave themselves the task of analyzing Beijing’s actions on the world stage ...
... of poverty. This is a just a fraction of the critical infrastructural and logistics deficit worldwide. India alone has close to 300 million people who live on less than $1.25 per day on purchasing power parity and here is where close ties forged by Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can make a difference. China is facilitating trade and development for Third World nations in ways major Western funders could not. However, China may need to fine-tune its Belt and Road initiative towards ...
... emperors", with the Confucian ideals of meritocracy regrettably appearing unattainable. The omnipotence of interest groups, legal nihilism and rampant corruption make the system highly vulnerable, especially if the economic growth rate drops. Therefore, Xi Jinping, the new Chinese leader, has focused his domestic policies on rooting out corruption, as well as symptoms of decay and the loss of consolidation within the elite.
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Bo Xilai, a former member of the CPC Central
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MOSCOW – The atmospherics surrounding Xi Jinping’s coming trip to Russia – his first visit to a foreign country as China’s new president – remind me of a slogan from my early childhood in the late 1950’s: “Russia-China, Friendship Forever.” The irony ...