Xi Jinping and Barack Obama: two leaders facing very different crises
So, in the same week, it is revealed to us who will be the next leaders of both superpowers: Barack Obama and Xi Jinping. The only difference is that we didn't know it would be Obama until after Tuesday's vote. By contrast, we knew it would be Xi long before the process that begins in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing tomorrow, from which he will emerge as Communist party leader, becoming the country's president next spring.
The coincidence prompts two questions: which superpower is getting stronger? And which faces the deeper crisis of its economic and political system?… Seguir leyendo »