Policy President Xi’s Fleeting Rural Dreams With China’s National Day Holiday celebrations in full swing this week, questions have risen as to whether President Xi’s economic strategy is helping or hurting the country.  Without question, the trade war with the U.S. came at a challenging moment when Beijing was making efforts to diversify its domestic economy. Specifically, the leadership wants to move away from the export of lower value consumer goods and assembled components to higher value technologies and a larger service sector. Similarly, China’s central government, keenly aware of the shaky ground of its shadow banking sector, implemented several policies to curtail capital outflows and restrict specula...