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Xi Jinping has spent the past few days doing what he does best: tightening his grip on the narrative of Chinas future while quietly reminding every region and partner who sits at the center of the story. According to the official Xinhua readout carried on the Macao SAR Government website, he met Macao Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai in Beijing this week at Zhongnanhai, giving a highly public seal of approval to the new term government and praising Macao for safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests. He urged Macao to align more closely with the coming Fifteenth Five Year Plan, diversify its economy and better integrate into the Greater Bay Area a small but telling window into how he wants the once casino dependent enclave to become a disciplined piece of the national strategy rather than a world of its own. Chinese and Macao officials stress this was a routine annual duty visit, and there are no credible reports of tension behind the smiles, despite inevitable outside speculation that Beijing is impatient with the pace of diversification.
Just a few days earlier, Xi presided over the Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing, the key closed door gathering that sets Chinas 2026 economic agenda. The official State Council release says he reviewed the entire 2025 economic picture, declared the years main targets basically achieved, and mapped out priorities for the next year, with an eye to launching the Fifteenth Five Year Plan on strong footing. At the same time, Peoples Daily accounts summarized by outlets such as the South China Morning Post and trade publications highlight unusually sharp language from Xi warning officials against cooking the books and undertaking reckless vanity projects just to pump up GDP. He demanded what he called solid, genuine growth and promised stricter accountability for anyone chasing superficial numbers. That combination praise for resilience under pressure and a warning shot at local cadres is classic late era Xi: an economic line that puts security, technological self reliance and long term control ahead of headline growth.
On the diplomatic front, his shadow still loomed over the Foreign Ministrys latest press briefing, where spokespeople explicitly framed recent outreach to Arab states as implementation of the global initiatives Xi has personally branded and promoted, from development to security. And in Turkmenistan, an international forum marking the UNs Year of Peace and Trust opened this week with a warm congratulatory letter from Xi stressing neutrality, peace and Chinas friendship, a soft power note reinforcing his image as a guardian of stability just as Beijing talks up its role in a multipolar world.
There have been no verified major public speeches or surprise foreign trips from Xi in the past 24 hours beyond these set piece events and their continuing media afterglow, and no credible social media sightings that add anything meaningful to his biography; Chinese platforms are amplifying the same themes of economic discipline, patriotic education and loyal peripheries. But taken together, these days capture where Xi is in his life story now: a leader entering the later chapters of his rule, still centralizing, still lecturing his officials on morality and realism, and still carefully choreographing Hong Kong and Macao as proof that his model of one country two systems is, in his telling, alive and well.
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