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Xi declares China will be as dominant as he now is

President Xi of China, center, flanked by new members of the Politburo’s Standing Committee, on Oct. 25

FIRST HE SHOOK THE HAND OF JIANG Zemin, China’s 91-year-old former leader. Then Xi Jinping, newly reaffirmed as Chinese President for another five years, strode down the ranks of top cadres seated onstage at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Oct. 24, sharing congratulations on the culmination of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

What made the day truly historic, however, was Xi’s new

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