Xi's China Dream may be hoisted by its own petard
With its hard line on the South China Sea verdict, Beijing has painted itself into a corner while increasing the chance of conflict with its neighbours.
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New Delhi
AN international court's stinging verdict, denying China's claim to ownership of virtually the entire South China Sea, has put a spanner in the "China Dream" of President Xi Jinping and left him with a series of difficult options.
When he took over leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012, Mr Xi made the China Dream - described as "the great revival of the Chinese nation" - his signature mission. To symbolically underline the importance of the South China Sea to this initiative, among his first visits outside Beijing as the new party boss was to meet the sailors aboard the Haikou, a guided-missile destroyer which had patrolled disputed waters in the sea.
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