If Xi Jinping had already been party leader in 1978, when the People's Republic of China began to open up economically, the world should have less worry about China today.
Then, because of ideological blindness, many changes that have made the country stronger would not have been set in motion.
Therefore, much of what Xi claimed to have been the merit of the Communist Party's alleged founding day can in fact be ascribed to the industriousness and improvisation of the people in China.
In this context, one must not forget the West, which is now often demonized.
China's communists have been courted by the economy and politics in western countries for many years, for political (counterbalance to the Soviet Union) and economic (huge market) motives.
So it is not least thanks to Western entrepreneurship that the Chinese entrepreneurship has been revived.
With his wagon-castle mentality, Xi Jinping questions much of what has been achieved.
China is strong, he's right.
But even a strong China cannot succeed in the long run without a partner.
Partnership, however, requires the will and the ability to compromise on both sides.
A “wall of steel”, as Xi conjured it up, is definitely not a solution.