Chinese leader Xi Jinping can’t be happy his Third Plenum extravaganza is competing for headlines with events 11,000 kilometers from Beijing.
In Xi’s defense, it’s hard to compete for headlines with an assassination attempt against former US President Donald Trump half a world away. That, coming just over two weeks after Trump’s fiery debate with a cognitively challenged President Joe Biden.
But Trump’s choice of JD Vance as his running mate could signal an even bigger upstaging of Xi’s grandest economic plans going forward.
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