Xi Jinping is not losing confidence despite China's economic difficulties; instead, he is consciously making hard structural economic choices in the near term to create stronger structural elements for China's future, which he believes will give him aggregate advantage in many different areas

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clearly he's lost confidence because of his economy he hasn't lost confidence he is making struct hard structural changes that require near-term suffering for the Chinese economy to ultimately have stronger elements structural elements to it going forward

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Former Naval Intelligence Chief on the Likelihood of War With ChinaDecoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:02:44 PM

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