When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the man the world again thought would be a reformer instead lurched to the Maoist left, tightened all the screws of dictatorship, and turned to an ideology of aggressive nationalism. Against the odds, both inside and outside of China, people persist in believing and expecting that China is moving towards a more socially and politically open society, in what was once, hopefully, called a ‘slow-motion revolution’.
