What We Got Right (and Wrong) in 2017

We try our best to achieve perfect accuracy in our coverage of the Year Ahead, but inevitably, a few things slip by us. Here, some of the things we didn’t quite see coming—and some spot-on predictions that we’re particularly proud of.

We said: Xi Jinping will use the National Congress of the Communist Party to concentrate control.

What happened: Indeed, no obvious successor to the Chinese president emerged from the party’s twice-a-decade meeting in October, triggering speculation that Xi will try to stay in office beyond the two terms mandated by Deng Xiaoping. He also stacked the party’s Standing Committee with loyalists.