How China's Xi Jinping has misread history

[Anders]

Thanks, what say about about your former collegue’s article on China snd the book he writes that Xi’s approach is mainstream Chinese?

[Philip Stephens]

Well I suppose mainstream Chinese has seen emperors rise and fall and for much of the time China a fairly weak power

[Paul Hough]

Thank you Philip. A welcome reminder that apparently enduring bureaucracies do fail at some point.

[Philip Stephens]

Thanks Paul...