Xi Jinping: A single flower does not make springBy MAURO GIA SAMONTEhome/Opinion/Op-Ed Columns/Xi Jinping: A single flower does not make springTwo significant developments took place quickly one after another in the lead up to this year’s episode of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum for International Cooperation, scheduled to convene in Beijing, China, on April 26 and 27. President Xi Jinping must take credit for making China the great equalizer in world conflicts. China’s economy, the world’sIn the same speech cited above, President Xi Jinping elaborated: “China’s economy is highly integrated with the world economy. In contrast, with President Donald Trump reinvigorating the Monroe Doctrine by his current America First Policy, the US strengthens its closed-door world economic approach. In Xi’s poetic allegory, that’s calling a “single flower” spring.

Source: Manila Times April 13, 2019 16:07 UTC