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Why Xi Won’t Retire
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race underscores Chinese President Xi Jinping’s lack of a retirement plan, the Wall Street Journal terminates a Hong Kong reporter as …