President Xi Jinping has, over the years, drastically cut short his foreign travels. More like Chairman Mao, he prefers to host world leaders in Beijing. His foreign visits that averaged about 14 trips a year during 2013–19 fell to one during the pandemic year 2020, to zero for 2021, and were partially revived to five […] The post Patron problem: Kim Jong Un played Russia, rattled China and won appeared first on Asia Times .