Retired Officials Are Sabotaging Xi’s Foreign Policy to Prolong Communist Party Rule

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Center) and other new members of the Communist Party of China's Politburo Standing Committee (L-R) Wang Huning, Han Zheng, Li Zhanshu, Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, Zhao Leji meet press in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on October 25, 2017. WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images

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Two years ago, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said: “We have a thousand reasons to ensure the success of U.S.-China relations, and not a single reason to ruin those relations.”