Commentary
There are times when major events happen in such a truncated time. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin purportedly said in 1917, when he was still in exile in Zurich, “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
In American history, we can think of times like these, such as the “100 days” in 1947, from President Harry Truman’s March 12 announcement of what would become known as the Truman Doctrine to Secretary of State George Marshall’s June 5 outline of the Marshall Plan for reconstructing Europe. So, too, the weeks from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th Congress in mid-October, through the midterm elections, to the G20 meeting in Bali in mid-November should be considered Xi Jinping’s “100 days.”…