He’s staying the course. Chinese leader Xi Jinping kicked off the Twentieth Chinese Communist Party Congress—where he’s expected to be handed a third five-year term as party general secretary—with a nearly two-hour speechthat emphasized security above other issues facing the country. Xi doubled down on his zero-COVID policy and held out the prospect of forceful “reunification” with Taiwan. How should the world interpret his rhetoric about the island? Is a course correction coming on the economy? What was conspicuously absent from the speech? The Atlantic Council’s China watchers read between the lines for the answers.
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