How Xi Jinping's global ambitions could thrive as Trump turns inward

As Donald Trump steers the US towards isolationism and protectionism, China's leader is casting himself as a champion of internationalism and free trade. But are Xi's values really compatible with those of the rest of the world?

Some call it Xi Jinping's Big White Book; a 515-page, 2.5kg tome in which China's paramount leader lays out his thinking on everything from tree planting to macro-economics; from Karl Marx to the importance of being earnest.

More than five million copies of Xi's The Governance of China now adorn bookshelves and coffee tables around the globe, if Communist party propagandists are to be believed, in languages including Russian, Cambodian, Portuguese, Arabic and Nepali.

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