Why Did No One Question Xi’s Suitability for Leadership?
Chinese leader Xi Jinping inspects the troops during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on Sept. 3, 2025. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
The failure of governments around the world to recognize the inevitability of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping’s unsuitability, even for his own country, as a national leader—his lack of wisdom, disguised, perhaps deliberately, by ruthlessness—is at the heart of the strategic problems of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Gregory Copley
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Gregory Copley is president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of the “Defense & Foreign Affairs” series of publications. Born in Australia, Copley is an entrepreneur, writer, government adviser, defense publication editor, and Member of the Order of Australia. His latest and 37th book is “The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.”
