We are obsessed with Brexit and Trump: we should be thinking about China | Martin Kettle

It will no longer do to skip over the detail of the superpower’s beliefs and ambitions. What Xi Jinping says and does will shape our worldThis has not been, it must be admitted, an exactly stellar week for those of us who continue to make the case for the enduring strengths of liberal democracy. On the contrary, it has felt like one humiliation after another.In the House of Commons, a vote to suspend universal credit is brushed aside by Theresa May’s government as though parliament c