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Control the past and they’ll throw in control of the future for free. This month China’s Communist Party has rewritten its official history and Xi Jinping has been elevated to the nation’s Mount Rushmore.
China’s leader seems to rule supreme, but he’s very picky about Winnie the Pooh, Hollywood, and anal swab COVID-19 tests for Japanese diplomats. All real wolf warrior moves, so to speak. It speaks to a deep insecurity at the top.
Here to walks us through Xi and China’s grand strategy is Sulmaan Khan. Khan is the Denison chair of international history and diplomacy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. He is the author of Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy From Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping.
image: Kremlin photo.
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