Xi Jinping still faces limitations as a leader. Xi Jinping has risen to become China's most powerful leader in a generation, but he still faces constraints. In an interview with CNN, Cheng Li says, “China is not in the mood for a dictator-like figure.”

Chinese foreign investment is indifferent to governance quality. David Dollar tells The Washington Post that China's lending to poor-governance countries is balanced by its lending to relatively good-governance countries.