It would be even more refreshing to see it reassert its right to determine fiscal policy more generally by telling the Bank to end QE and with it the associated insidious, pernicious distributional effects in favour of the wealthy.
It is likely if the military were to again reassert its power, it would push demonstrations to a critical mass.
But if Mr Xi believes that the only way of ensuring stability is for the party to reassert its control, it remains possible that he will authorise force.
As for Russia, the Syrian crisis has seen it reassert its position as a great power able to confront the US, though not on the scale of the Soviet Union.
This faith is sustained by Saul Bellow, who reasserts it in the lectures, interviews, obituaries and journalistic odd jobs collected in It All Adds Up.
This conclusion is extensively justified in the literature and this article aims at reasserting it by analysing the risk that a VoIP phone call may be intercepted when travelling across the Internet.
Most important, if structured properly, it could allow the United States to reassert its leadership (provided it listens to other members), mitigating China's influence.
Placing Iran on the enemies list may also encourage it to reassert its claims over the offshore Caspian oilfields that are in dispute with the Republic of Azerbaijan.
This trend never entirely disappears, and at times (when other popular music has moved too far in the direction of artifice) it reasserts its strength in the marketplace, but it has not been so potent as the second trend, which is toward music that is more nervous, more eclectic, more urban, and more "arranged".
With Ankara seeking a greater role in the Middle East as it reasserts its clout in its Muslim backyard, it is time to draw red lines for Iran's unceasing expansionism.
