https://www.scmp.com/rss/324760/feed en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com President Xi Jinping (習近平) has a very Chinese, years-in-advance ambition for the nation: to qualify, host and win the World Cup by 2050. Few people from a country that has yet to qualify for a World Cup would seriously dream about actually winning the most important game in the world. But China isn’t an ordinary country, 23 years isn’t an ordinary time frame, and Xi isn’t an ordinary person. He might actually pull it off. Indeed, there is probably no one in the world more powerful than Xi, if... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2101735/xi-jinpings-2050-world-cup-soccer-dream-where-china-has-got https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2101735/xi-jinpings-2050-world-cup-soccer-dream-where-china-has-got Sun, 09 Jul 2017 06:03:17 +0000