A Few Weeks Before the 20th CCP Congress, Xi Jinping Is Facing the Challenge of a Fractured Chinese Economy.

This is not the scenario Xi Jinping dreamed of for 2022.

For a man obsessed with control and stability, 2022 is not going according to plan for Chinese President Xi Jinping. A year ago, nothing seemed likely to disturb him on his way to the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which, in the fall of 2022, will give him a third term as head of the country and confirm him as the most powerful Chine…