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Under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, “ideology drives policy more often than the other way around,” the former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd wrote in 2022. That insight bears revisiting ahead of next week’s summit between Xi and U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington. Rudd, a longtime China watcher, argues that Western observers have often ignored, to their peril, the brand of Marxism-Leninism that forms Xi’s “blueprint for the future.” The essay is an essential read for understanding the ambitions and motivations of one of the world’s most important leaders.
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