Xi Jinping's global ambitions
China In Context
The Importance of Leaving China Alone
I admire your research on organizations such as the United Front Work Department and the Central Propaganda Department. What would you say are the big ideas which Xi Jinping is seeking to promote through those organizations? I think the most important one is the Chinese Communist Party deserves respect and appreciation for the accomplishments it has made in terms of modernizing China, bringing hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. From that big idea flows another. There is not one way to rule a people. There's not one accepted sort of end of history ideal as to how the relationship between government and governed should operate. These are not new ideas. What's different now is that China has at its disposal far greater resources and political
