HIs newly personable approach with world leaders is a departure from a combative style in recent years. But it's being challenged at home by pandemic protests.
“It is the glorification and the confirmation of his third term,” said Yun Sun, the director of the China program at the Washington-based Stimson Center. “The goal was to show a grandiose return of China and himself to the world stage. China is back and Xi is back, stronger.”Meanwhile, there have been no mentions in state media of the demonstrations challenging his power — the largest such gatherings since the 1989 pro-democracy protests that ended in a massacre around Tiananmen Square.
“Xi’s view is really tit for tat. If you engage, they will engage. If you want to throw a punch, Xi is going to throw a punch,” said Jessica Chen Weiss, a China expert at Cornell University. “We may look back and see Bali as an inflection point, where it might begin to level off and not accelerate so rapidly toward confrontation.”
“Let’s create conditions first,” Xi replied curtly, then muttered one more word as he walked away: “Naive.”
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