Xi Jinping is expected to break longstanding tradition in the coming days and secure a third term as China's president. It will mark a new era for China and likely lead to more tensions with the U.S.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the opening session of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Sunday in Beijing.
Sun told NPR there were three main factors that could play into Xi's assertiveness in the coming years.For the past five years, Sun said Xi had largely focused on securing his third term, and part of that meant convincing his party to remove the term limit and break with tradition. Now, his political agenda is likely to change from primarily domestic to global.
Sun believes these three factors will"deepen Xi Jinping's boldness" – and that boldness will have an impact on U.S.-China relations.Two key issues China and the U.S. are likely to clash over in the coming years are Taiwan and technology, according to Chris Li, the director of research at the Asia-Pacific Initiative at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
"You get this tit-for-tat retaliation where there's not a lot of trust ... and sort of a back and forth where the U.S. views its actions as responsive to China's actions, [and] China views its actions as a response to the U.S.'s actions," Li said.
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