Minxin Pei is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a nonresident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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The four albatrosses weighing down Xi Jinping
Political miscalculation and strategic overreach have united West against Beijing
The first container train as part of the Belt and Road Initiative is seen at the port of Mukran, Germany: BRI turned into strategic liabilities instead of assets. © AP
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