China's President Xi Jinping, speaks during a Press Statement in the Hotel Bellevue Palace during his visit to Switzerland, in Bern, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. But China's efforts to step confidently on to the world stage have been hurt by questions about its economic fitness. Xi, China's "chairman of everything," responded by taking more direct control. For years, critics have questioned the use of bankers and celebrities playing politics on the ski slopes, casting World Economic Forum attendees as symbols of an obscene and out-of-touch transnational class. With the U.S. and the U.K. looking inward, Xi, an authoritarian nationalist, will step in — a new and different kind of Davos man.

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2017 11:17 UTC