Xi Jinping boasts about a great wall of steel in the speech marking the kickoff of his precedent-breaking third term as China’s president. Xi – who’s consolidated his grip on power and flexing his might just as leaders of the US, Australia and the UK converged on San Diego where they vowed to stand up to Beijing’s expansionist designs in the Pacific and elsewhere. How adversarial is Xi, what with so much trade between Aukus allies and China.


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