Xi Jinping in Beijing in September at a banquet for the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Many are pushing for him to initiate policies to improve the economy.Credit...Lintao Zhang/Getty Images BEIJING — After it was leaked that Xi Jinping, the man anointed to be the next Communist Party chief of China, had met in private with a well-known supporter of political libera
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