China, America is watching Xi’s ultra-nationalism with concern

NEW YORK – “Foreign powers will split their heads and shed blood if they try to stop China’s rise”: for all American media this phrase of Xi Jinping it is the one that best sums up the meaning of the great feast celebrated in Beijing for the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party. America watches cautiously, records with apprehension the ultra-nationalist tones, the bellicose rhetoric, the bloody images.