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In a Trump-troubled world, China’s leader still sees opportunities in poor countries
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In a Trump-troubled world, China’s leader still sees opportunities in poor countries

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

It was a good year for Xi Jinping

Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

It has spent years pinpointing America’s weaknesses and mitigating its own

Foreign concerns about a deluge of Chinese goods fall on deaf ears in Beijing