Xi Jinping’s endgame: A China prepared for Conflict with the US

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Jonathan Cheng, The Wall Street Journal
China's President Xi Jinping (Photo: AFP)Premium
China's President Xi Jinping (Photo: AFP)

He has unleashed an array of military, economic and political campaigns to brace the country for the possibility of confrontation

Since rising to power a decade ago, Xi Jinping has unleashed an array of campaigns to help ensure that China would prevail in, or at least withstand, a confrontation with the West. He has bolstered China’s military, reorganized the economy and remade society around a more ideologically committed Communist Party.