1. Orville Schell:
Indeed, the more I watch Xi, the more he seems destined to become another tragic hero — a smart, overweening, ambitious leader unable to stop himself from putting the very thing he professes to care about most (his country) in mortal peril. Just as Mao’s overwrought dreams of class struggle and global people’s war led to the deaths of …
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