Beijing has been chipping away at the pillars of the U.S.-led global order, but Chinese President Xi Jinping had not offered a comprehensive vision of how a China-led replacement might work. That is changing. Xi has collected his ideas for a new world order into the Global Security Initiative (GSI). The initiative might as well be called the Autocrat’s Manifesto. Its principles and practices would usher in a global system friendlier to repressive regimes than the current order.