Commentary Xi Jinping will present a historic resolution at this week’s sixth plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 19th Central Committee. To Xi or not to Xi; that is the question for China (and the world). Apologies to William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” but that phrase fits the present times like a glove. Consider the first lines of Hamlet’s soliloquy in the context of Xi who is approaching the end of his second five-year term in office: To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. Xi has supposedly read Goethe’s “Fauste” and other “world masterpieces,” according to China’s state-run media Xinhua. Has he read Shakespeare, too? If so, what must Xi be thinking about in terms of the “slings and arrows”—the …