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Dubious Prospects for Xi’s China

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Dubious Prospects for Xi’s China
Chinese leader Xi Jinping addresses the audience at a luncheon at SkyCity Grand Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand, on Nov. 21, 2014. Greg Bowker-Pool/Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members have completed their 20th National Congress. Now, all know for sure what was apparent even before the conference convened. Xi Jinping is firmly in control and has placed loyalists in every position of power.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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