This year started with Xi Jinping calling for the defense of capitalism and free trade at the 2017 World Economic Forum; is China about to strip the United States of its trappings of global leadership?
“Outside a truly limited number of countries that occupy a strategic position in Chinese diplomacy like Russia and North Korea, China is willing to provide economic and diplomatic support and sell weapons and train security forces. Yet, when push comes to shove, Beijing will stand aside, never truly committed to the survival of any regime.”