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Now that President Xi Jinping has been duly elevated to the Chinese Communist Party pantheon in the rarified company of Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, the world will have plenty of time to digest the meaning of “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.” Xi himself, in his 3½-hour speech at the start of the 19th Party Congress, pointed to a rather simplified “socialist democracy” – extolling its virtues as the only counter-model to Western...

China perceives the status quo as American hegemony that stands in the way of its Chinese Dream. An irresistible force meeting an immovable object? Somethin's gotta give. A major problem is that America and to a great extent it Anglo allies assumes that its view of liberalism is descriptive of the natural order and other views are therefore simply wrong. This is one of the foundations of a series of paradoxes of liberalism that lead liberals to think and act illiberally.  China views...