Highlights from Xi Jinping’s speech.

The Belt and Road Initiative will help build a community of shared destiny of mankind in the new era.

The new leadership structure of the central political commissions demonstrates a fundamental shift in the division of responsibilities between members of the Standing Committee since the 1980s. Policymaking on the top priority issues of Xi Jinping’s agenda will effectively be shifted from the Politburo’s Standing Committee to the special political commissions in the upcoming years.

Amid a better trade war with Washington, China's Xi reiterates commitment to reform.

Relations between China and much of the West appear to be moving in reverse. The PRC risks losing its best friends abroad.

In its haste to prepare for a ‘rising China’ and the increasing power of President Xi, the U.S. has misread crucial political and economic factors that could change the United States’ characterization of China as a threat.

Beginning the year with a drastic restructuring of the Constitution, the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi appeared increasingly formidable. But in the face of domestic scandals, currency concerns, and a trade war with the U.S., Minxin Pei argues that President Xi may need a new strategy to satisfy the Chinese people.

China has a clear script for the future. It’s time for the rest of the international community to develop one of its own.