Xi Needs Peace With US to Fix Problems, James McGregor Says
Xi Jinping in Nusa Dua on Nov. 15.
Photographer: Mast Irham/AFP/Getty Images
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Chinese President Xi Jinping needs better ties with the US to give himself room to fix the many problems he faces back home, said James McGregor, author and head of APCO Worldwide Greater China, a consultancy.
“He has an economy that’s the worst in 30 years,” McGregor said Tuesday in a television interview on the sidelines of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. “He’s got youth unemployment that they say is 20% -- who knows how high it is. Internationally, China’s reputation is very low.”