In China's new age of imperialism, Xi Jinping gives thumbs down to democracy | Simon Tisdall

Beijing is aiming for global ascendancy - but its leader's vision of world dominion is centralised, oppressive and totalitarian The US describes its newly announced diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, backed by Britain and other western countries, as a protest against China's "egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang", where the Chinese Communist party (CCP) is accused of genocide, as well as its evisceration of Hong Kong's democracy. Yet a separate, lurking worry ...