Since Chinese President Xi and the National People’s Congress removed presidential term limits, the prospect of Xi’s leadership (and that of his successors) potentially lasting decades has become reality.
Although seen as controversial move abroad, the move should allow even more longer-term strategic thinking to prevail. China prides itself on its ability to ride out short-term turbulence in favor of lasting gains; something which is becoming evidently much more difficult for Xi’s counterparts in the West.
The Chinese leadership appears, perhaps naively, to have believed it could sit out the Trump administration’s sabre rattling over