China's Asian Dream

''China'', Napoleon once remarked, ''is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.'' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken.

From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to presenting itself as a world leader in the fight against climate change, a newly confident China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. W...