Xi Jinping just showed his power by making China’s elite sit through a tortuously long speech

Xi Jinping just showed his power by making China’s elite sit through a tortuously long speech

Xi Jinping, China’s president and head of the Chinese Communist Party, delivered the most important talk of his political career today in Beijing. The speech opened the weeklong 19th National Congress, a twice-a-decade gathering involving a leadership reshuffling. In the days ahead Xi, already the most dominant Chinese leader in at least three decades, is…