Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons As China approaches the end of summer 2025, mounting economic data suggests that Xi Jinping’s leadership may represent a decisive break in the country’s four-decade-long economic rise. What once seemed like an unstoppable trajectory toward global dominance now shows signs of stagnation and structural weakness across multiple sectors. Xi Jinping has achieved unprecedented control over China, becoming the most powerful leader in the country’s 75-year history, surpassing even Mao Zedong. After removing presidential term limits in 2018 and stacking the Politburo Standing Committee with loyalists at the 2022 Party Congress, Xi consolidated control over both the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the state. The forced removal of his predecessor Hu Jintao from the Party Congress in front…
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