China’s Big Worry is actually the Chinese Communist Party’s Big Worry, which is aligned with Xi’s Big Worry: losing power. Inside the party, tensions caused by President Xi Jinping’s efforts to convert the economy from one driven mostly by exports to one driven mostly by consumers and to combat corruption in ways that have put many high-ranking officials and top military officers in jail have caused problems for his leadership. Those issues and his inability to stymie overt criticism of the party and historical figures and a growing instability, both economic and political, as perceived by some party leaders, have apparently put his place at the top of the party at risk. With the twice-per-decade Communist party National Congress convening this fall and with its authorityto reappoint Xi to a second five-year term, the president has started instituting more repressive tactics and spending more lavishly to overcome domestic problems. Such tactics will only increaseas this fall’s congress meeting approaches, as will China’s push internationally to become a respected global power and Beijing’s efforts to limit access to foreign ideas to China’s populace.