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Olivia Enos and Heritage Senior Research Fellow Dean Cheng interview Gregory Poling on the maritime disputes and artificial islands in the South China Sea. Gregory Poling is a Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia and Director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
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One man. One party. One country of 1.4 billion people. Little wonder Chairman-for-life Xi Jinping is worried about maintaining absolute authority.
To do so, he’s painted a nationalistic picture of China’s future. It’s as good as – if not greater – than at any point in its 2000-year history.
Now, he has to deliver. That’s not proving so easy.
Floods. Insects. Famine. COVID-19. All are affecting food supplies and prices.
Xi quickly fell back on the tried-and-tested fallback position for most embattled authoritarian leaders: extol the nation’s greatness, its glorious history, its manifest destiny – and blame everybody else for its woes.
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