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Op-Ed: Xi is positioning China as the world’s indispensable economy — and Biden’s greatest challenge



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A news report on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New Year’s Eve speech is shown on a public screen in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIt’s now Biden’s America, but whose world will it be?Expect China’s President Xi Jinping to answer that question unequivocally on Monday with his keynote at the World Economic Forum’s first global virtual meeting. It will leave little doubt that managing relations with China will be both President Joe Biden’s most immediate and most defining foreign policy challenge.It’s hard to imagine more dramatic timing for Xi’s “special address,” coming in the …

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