Chairman Xi has chosen China's highest officials (aside from him) based on personal obedience to him.

In the short term, this will encourage grave mistakes. It will also very likely leave China with weak leaders whenever Xi dies or retires. But that could be ten years from now.

China's repression in Xinjiang and Hong Kong has brought China a well-deserved increase in world condemnation.

Can we envision a way that China could become a free, successful country?