The year is 1985. A young 31-year-old Xi Jinping, then a county Communist Party committee secretary, made his way to San Francisco and posed in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Cut to 38 years later, and Xi Jinping, now the president of China, will return to San Francisco and meet with his US counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the APEC meet today (15 November). Whether he poses again along the Golden Gate Bridge is yet unknown. A lot has changed since then. Xi has become president of China; the country has grown into a superpower and has...