Therefore, his recent major adjustments to China’s domestic economic growth model outlined in chapter 6, including the reemphasis of the state over the market, and his new restrictions on the Chinese private sector pose a real political danger to his leadership if growth, employment, or living standards were to stall. This, in my judgment, is Xi’s greatest liability, particularly given that his critics in the party leadership elite have previously championed a different economic policy strategy for China’s future.
