Subject: Editors' Picks: What accounts for China's great leap backward? And who will replace James Mattis as U.S. defense secretary?
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:07:36 -0500 (CDT)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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10/15/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at how Chinese President Xi Jinping is at risk of destroying many of the mechanisms that made his country’s rise possible, why Shiite militias are recruiting ex-Islamic State fighters in Iraq, and what is likely to follow U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments that U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is “sort of a Democrat.”

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WRONG MOVE: For decades, China has managed to avoid most problems suffered by dictatorships, but a personal power play by President Xi Jinping risks undermining everything that has made the country exceptional, writes Jonathan Tepperman, FP’s editor in chief.

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GETTING THE AX: In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday, Trump gave the clearest signal yet that Mattis, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general and former head of U.S. Central Command, could be the next member of his cabinet to be forced out, FP’s Lara Seligman writes.

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AFTER ISIS: A strange alliance between Sunnis and Shiites is sure to leave Iraq worse off, Vera Mironova and Mohammed Hussein write.

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DUP TO NO GOOD: The Democratic Unionist Party, the small Northern Irish party that props up the British government, has a history of belligerence and brinkmanship. But ultimately it will blink, Newton Emerson writes.

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PROBLEMATIC PARTNERS: Donald Trump isn’t just maintaining an alliance with Saudi Arabia—he’s choosing it over the rest of the world, FP’s Stephen M. Walt writes.

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