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Here's a peek at Xi Jinping's 'uniquely Chinese model' for world domination

With the US, Xi has more candidly announced China's ambitions to take center stage in world affairs than any leader since Mao Zedong

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China's President Xi Jinping arrives for the APEC CEO Summit 2018 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | PTI photo

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Who is the most important and disruptive leader in the world today? Most Americans would probably answer, Donald Trump -- with Russia’s Vladimir Putin running a close second. But my choice for the must-read book of 2018, Elizabeth C. Economy’s “The Third Revolution,” makes a strong case that China’s Xi Jinping may deserve the title.

Under Xi’s leadership since 2012, an increasingly powerful China has begun throwing its weight around in ways that have led international observers to fear the emergence of a new Cold War -- or perhaps even a new hot war -- with the US Xi has more