the architect of china's opening, deng xiaoping, spoke of the need for china to hide its strength and bide its time. but that was not simply a counsel to wait a few decades. deng understood that china was so large, bordering so many countries with so many border disputes, that it needed to reassure the world. winston churchill once said that russia was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. china is a cornucopia, a vast teeming land full of contradictions. say anything about china, and you can find it in there and its opposite. will xi be able to control the sprawling country and force it along the lines he wishes? so far, he has succeeded at home. but in doing so, he's making life for that average chinese couple less open and one in