China’s Forgotten Premier Steps Out of Xi’s Shadow as Economic Fixer

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In China, a potential counterbalance is emerging to President Xi. It's his low-profile No. 2, Premier Li.

Li Keqiang helps press the president to dial back policies that have contributed to the economy’s slowdown

Premier Li Keqiang, left, and President Xi Jinping at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing last year.For years, President Xi Jinping has sidelined China’s second most powerful political figure, Premier Li Keqiang. Now, Mr. Li is re-emerging as a force in his own right, a potential counterbalance atop the Chinese government that hasn’t been seen for nearly a decade.

With China mired in its worst economic funk in recent memory, Mr. Li is helping press China’s authoritarian leader

 

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What will happen if Chine decides to close all her borders to the world and ‘settle things’ inside.

Until he too becomes another monster?

The whole “ruler” for life thing never works (see Putin, Xi, Castro, etc.) When was the last time a U.S. president even had a successful second term? People get stale in any job after a while and need to make way for new thinking.

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However, the premier Li to step down

the difference President Xi is complete with the flag whereas the second is bouncing on honkers.

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