What Xi Jinping Wants

The White House has pub­licly cri­ti­cized China in re­cent months for ma­nip­u­lat­ing its cur­rency, en­ga­ging in cor­por­ate es­pi­on­age, pro­pos­ing re­stric­tions for U.S. tech firms that want to do busi­ness in the coun­try, and be­ing in­volved in a spate of cy­ber­at­tacks that tar­geted Amer­ic­an com­pan­ies and gov­ern­ment agen­cies.