The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-07-14 · 104 min · 15,697 words

What Xi Jinping Wants

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Since twenty twelve, Xi Jinping has been the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He is Consolidated power.

and under his rule China has strengthened technologically, diplomatically, militarily. It is now widely understood to be an industrial juggernaut. On a scale the world has never seen. In a way the world does not quite know how to respond to.

But Xi Jinping's ambitions for China go far beyond that. In the long term, he wants China to be the preeminent world power. In the near term. He wants it to control. Taiwan.

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