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By fostering a personality cult and by dominating the party and the government, Xi Jinping has become China's most powerful leader for a long time—certainly since Deng, and maybe since Mao. Our cover leader argues that his rise has profound implications for the country
John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief | | | | | | America's House of Representatives backed Barack Obama's plan to arm and train rebels in Syria in their fight against Islamic State extremists. Mr Obama says America will not get involved in ground combat; its main contribution will be air strikes. But General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hinted that American troops could embed with Iraqi soldiers in their battle against IS. Earlier, 27 countries, including Arab states, met in Paris to pledge military assistance to defeat IS "by all means necessary"
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MORE FROM: POLITICS THIS WEEK » | | | The OECD released its first recommendations for reforming the international corporate-tax system, an effort to stop companies from shifting profits abroad, which the organisation thinks is "a serious risk to tax revenues". The proposals seek to refashion the roughly 3,000 tax treaties and rules that have been around since the 1920s. Politicians have been increasingly agitated of late by big companies paying little tax or relocating their headquarters overseas to avoid tax
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