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Will Xi Jinping’s Global Ambitions for China Succeed?

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Published January 17, 2023

Xi Jinping’s global ambitions for China have been slowed because of how he handled the pandemic with the zero-COVID policy. In the long term, he must fix the Chinese economy’s slowdown as well as its real estate crisis and withstand a global backlash against his excesses. 

Discussion Questions:

  1. Can America and China ever be friends, and what would it require?
  2. Are American values better than China’s? Why or why not?

Additional Resources:

  • Read “Xi Jinping’s New World Order,” by Elizabeth Economy via Foreign Affairs. Available here.
  • Watch “America’s New Great-Power Competition with China,” with Elizabeth Economy on PolicyEd. Available here.
  • Watch “Embracing Strategic Empathy,” with H. R. McMaster on PolicyEd. Available here.