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The Pleasant Lion and the Great Wall of Sand

In his in-depth profile of Chinese president Xi Jinping at The New Yorker this week, Evan Osnos wrote that […] Chinese leaders since Deng Xiaoping have adhered to a principle known as “Hide your strength, bide your time.” Xi has effectively replaced that concept with declarations of China’s arrival. In Paris last year, he invoked Napoleon’s remark that China was “a sleeping lion,” and said that the lion “has already awakened, but this is a peaceful, pleasant, and civilized lion.�