China's President Xi Jinping in recent years has shopped his nation as a model for others in the great competition with the West, and his government is poised to double down on its criticism of the US after Donald Trump takes office again.
Already, Chinese state media has blasted the American election process as stained by "unprecedented chaos." During Trump's first term, Xi and his lieutenants regularly positioned China as a force for good that is upholding the international order -- he even won applause with that message in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual confab. Xi reprised that narrative shortly after Trump's victory last month.