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Xi Triumphant

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President Xi Jinping has dramatically consolidated his power, emerging from the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Congress as China’s strongest leader since Mao Zedong. Project Syndicate contributors weigh the implications for China, Asia, and the world.

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  1. China’s Vision for the Next 30 Years
    Xi Jinping poster Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images 

    China’s Vision for the Next 30 Years

    Nov 14, 2017 Zhang Jun considers what the country is likely to achieve in the next 30 years – and what could stand in its way.

  2. China’s New World Order?
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    China’s New World Order?

    Nov 10, 2017 Ramesh Thakur explains how China’s leaders can succeed at positioning their country for global leadership.

  3. Mr. Trump Goes to China
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    Mr. Trump Goes to China

    Nov 6, 2017 Richard Haass says that North Korea will be the biggest issue by far when the US president meets Chinese President Xi Jinping.

  4. What Does Xi Jinping Want?
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    What Does Xi Jinping Want?

    Nov 3, 2017 Keyu Jin argues that China's president wants to create a legacy comprising three key components.

  5. Asia’s New Entente
    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Sam Panthaky/Getty Images

    Asia’s New Entente

    Nov 3, 2017 Brahma Chellaney is hopeful that cooperation among the Indo-Pacific region's democracies will continue to deepen.

  6. Why China’s Capital-Account Liberalization Has Stalled
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    Why China’s Capital-Account Liberalization Has Stalled

    Oct 31, 2017 Yu Yongding explains how a rapid decline in net foreign assets has forced officials to put currency convertibility on hold.

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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

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    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

     explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

     urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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