Xi’s 2026 Message: Strategy of Irreversibility and China’s Performative Power
January 5, 2026
Xi Jinping’s 2026 New Year message uses the rhetoric of inevitability to turn political goals into historical certainties.
Xi Jinping’s 2026 New Year message uses the rhetoric of inevitability to turn political goals into historical certainties.
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