"The challenge is Xi is smart."
Not as smart as some people think. Just like other dictators before him, eg. Mao, he is good at manipulating & dominating people, but else ...
He is at least partially responsible for China's economic problems, although a slowdown was coming, anyway. Now he has done away with the last somewhat pragmatic politburo members with some economic background & instead stuffed the politburo with sycophants.
From here on, it will probably get only worse.
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