Xi Jinping’s Purge and What Trump’s Foreign Policy Means for China

The New Yorker
by Isaac Chotiner
February 12, 2026
Isaac Chotiner interviews Bill Bishop, the author of “Sinocism,” about how China views the Trump Administration’s alienation of NATO allies, and what is happening in Xi’s “anti-corruption campaign.”
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Originally published on The New Yorker on 2/12/2026