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Yun Sun is a senior associate with the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, where she studies Chinese foreign policy, US-China relations and China's relations with neighboring countries.
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To the Point
Make China Great Again The US is a young country, but China's President Xi Jinping has a history of 5000 years to call on when he promises a return to past glories. This week, China's Communist Party congress elevated Xi Jinping to equal status with the legendary Mao Tse Tung, who founded the Communist Party — and came to personify the dangers of one-man rule. Xi is being called "the most powerful man in the world," as China builds a modern military and may already have out-stripped the US economically. But will China be "great" for free speech, an independent judiciary or human rights?
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