Alexander L. Vuving is a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. The views expressed in this article are his own.
When Xi Jinping became head of the Chinese Communist Party a decade ago, he ushered in a new era of foreign policy by jettisoning a key dictum of late leader Deng Xiaoping that had guided Beijing's grand strategy for more than two decades.