Dissident
DISSIDENT
Feb. 10, 2017
Last month, the elite World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland welcomed a sitting Chinese head of state for the first time ever. In a highly polished speech after which he accepted no questions, Xi Jinping presented the People’s Republic of China as a full-fledged member of the global community and a champion of globalization. He spoke out against protectionism—ascendant throughout the world, not least in the United States—and called for greater global economic governance and innovation.
Xi was a hit. Carl Bildt, the former Swedish Prime Minister, remarked that the Chinese leader clearly intended to make a bid for the leading role in global trade that the US until now has played. The Berlin-based banker André Loesekrug-Pietri claimed to see Xi becoming the “leader of the free world.” Papers around the world were abuzz with the news of Xi’s pitch to replace the US as the guarantor of the world economic system. Germany is one country that is apparently particularly receptive to this move. On January 25 Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang spoke by phone to recommit themselves to worldwide trade and investment liberalization.
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