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by maverick-iceman 1794 days ago
Xi (and every leader for that matter) chances to stay in power are intrinsically linked to one metric:

Quality of life of the population

If you leave quality of life on the table because of geopolitical games you are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Even during massive state sponsored hate campaigns (such as the one promoted by Hitler against the Jews) the population spends just a bunch of minutes per day actually fuming and hating...the rest of the 24 hrs they live their lives.

Quality of life is a much more potent motivator to support the leader/party than hatred.

That's why any sane country and leader would never attack an economically important country intentionally.

Violent wars are relegated to Africa and the economically unimportant areas of the Middle East such as Yemen. With some small outbreaks here and there in ethnically hot areas such as Ukraine