The anxiety behind Xi Jinping’s Pyongyang visit

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Watch the ceremony: twenty-one guns, two national anthems, state dinners, signed agreements, and crowds on cue.

Chinese state media called President Xi Jinping’s June visit to Pyongyang “a routine strengthening of ties.” A more plausible interpretation: The most powerful man in Asia flew there to reclaim a client he was losing — and the choreography […]

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