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Xi Serves China’s Bankers a Dose of Communism

Paramilitary policemen stand in front of the skyline of the Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai in 2014.

Photographer: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

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President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on private enterprise and push for “common prosperity” has rattled China’s business elite.