ABOUT one year ago Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he reflected on the exercise of power in the most populated country that is home to the world’s oldest continuous culture.The speech is the last one of the 92 articles included in his work The Governance of China III.This third volume assembles President Xi’s speeches and texts given between October 18,2017 and January 13,2020 preceding the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.However,the ideas in the book are clearly still valid today.