Yeah not sure how he can say Xi is one of the weakest Chinese leaders... if anything its the opposite. Huawei helping Xi use blockchain tech to create a digital Yuan monetary system. China is already cashless, WeChat payment leapfrogged the outdated credit card payment of the West. China One Belt Road is about leveraging its infrastructure overcapacity to build a massive trade network with all of Eurueasia, Huawei 5G connecting the high speed communications; and thus eroding the leverage America has with its navy in the SCS to blockade trade. At same time China signs bilateral deals with the BRI countries getting them onboard the digital Yuan, effectively pulling the rug under the US petrodollar system and shifting the power and wealth back to the 5000 year Middle Kingdom. Hardly the weakest leader.