With Marx’s guidance, Xi will take China into the new era.

Marx’s vision for the world was global, and so is China’s.

Trump spoke with Chinese President on Wednesday, with the two reiterating commitment to existing sanctions on North Korea even as a trade war brews between the two countries.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China and met President Xi Jinping, state media of both countries said on Tuesday, their second encounter in two months in a flurry of diplomatic engagement that has eased tensions on the Korean peninsula.

President Xi Jinping’s speech offers great insight into the future landscape of China.

China needs a strong leader to maintain stability.

Apart from the mainstream narrative that Xi is appropriating methods of Maoist political conservatism or autocratic statecraft, China’s domestic imperatives and external conditions prove useful in examining the motivation behind the abolition of term limits.

The test is whether the Chinese system adapts to long-term challenges and contributes to national and global wellbeing, not whether it adheres to Western standards.

To figure out what will change under a different framework for leadership succession, it is important to cut through the authorities’ opaque rhetoric – the “moderately well-off society” transitioning into the “new era” – and stress-test their basic development strategy.