Srikanth Kondapalli
The ‘Chairman of Everything’ has demolished all factions, ruthlessly sidelined senior leaders, and placed loyalists in key posts
Having dismantled the system of collective leadership, the Chinese president will now need more than loudspeaker nationalism
The best wealth stories are not of overcoming but of creating in a forbidding atmosphere, of imagination outpacing ideologies
Disengagement at last friction point after prolonged stale mate comes ahead of communist party congress that will give Xi Jinping third term as general secretary
The PLA looks impressive in ceremonial parades, but unlike the Indian Army it has no battlefield experience
If Xi Jinping stays on his present path, open conflict with the West, and with India and Japan, will become inevitable