https://www.scmp.com/rss/326572/feed James Stavridis is a Bloomberg columnist. He is a retired US Navy admiral and former military commander of Nato, and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His most recent book is Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The last emperor of China, Pu Yi, abdicated in 1912. He was the 12th emperor of the historically important Qing dynasty, which lasted 267 years. With his departure, two millenniums of empire, usually with a single individual dominating all of China, ended. Since then, the nation has moved toward an authoritarian system under Communist Party control, but has frequently changed leaders since the death in 1976 of Mao Zedong. Over recent decades, the party has observed a limit of two five-year terms... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2135439/why-us-should-be-wary-xi-jinpings-power-consolidation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2135439/why-us-should-be-wary-xi-jinpings-power-consolidation?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 03:16:25 +0000