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China’s rulers could well look at America’s polarised politics and reach the same but opposite conclusion as Mr Alperovitch
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—namely that all they need to do is wait, since America might only grow weaker and more distracted. Xi Jinping, China’s president and a fan of the novelist Leo Tolstoy, is certainly familiar with the quote from “War and Peace” that is this book’s epigraph: “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” ■
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