Mr. Xi's ideal city is empty, exposing the limits of his power - ``Xiongan New Area'' near Beijing

(Bloomberg): There is an anecdote that in 1979, Deng Xiaoping, who led China's reform and opening-up policies, drew a circle on a map of southern China and decided to establish a special economic zone in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, to experiment with capitalism.

Nearly 40 years later, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (President) Xi Jinping announced that he would embody his era's urban construction ambitions with the "Xiong'an New Area" near the capital Beijing. Xiong'an, which is expected to become a hi...
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