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Is Xi Jinping's China Moving in a Pragmatic Direction?
Until recently, Xi Jinping's China was very different from his predecessors. They doubled down on whatever policy they had and didn't seem to be particularly sensitive to popular sentiment. Now you're seeing the zero-COVID policy is being dismantled almost too hastily. The logic of this is both to boost industrialization at home and try and slow China down.