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<i>Radio Atlantic</i>: If We Could Learn From History

The power grab in China, the Iraq War fifteen years later, and the art of anticipating history, with James Fallows and Kathy Gilsinan.

Discarding the limits on a leader's time in office is a classic autocrat's move. So when Xi Jinping began to clear a path for an indefinite term as China's president,'s national correspondent, it was a sad vindication of a warning he issued two years ago in the magazine, of As the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq approaches, we review the developments in China, and look back at another warning that proved prescient: Fallows's National Magazine Award-winning essay, Fallows joins our hosts, Alex Wagner and Matt Thompson, along with 's global editor Kathy Gilsinan.

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