Tag: xi jinping

Commentary Can mass indoctrination save Xi Jinping? Times of turmoil and transition are always unstable and unpredictable; the mood of the “crowd” becomes critical and mercurial. The narrowness of the power base around a leader makes the ruler vulnerable and, of necessity, paranoid. Even trustworthy factions and supporters are not trusted. Neither is the loyalty of the crowd, regardless of ...

Commentary It seems that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is particularly sensitive to being described as a “dictator.” When U.S. President Joe Biden used the description, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was outraged, with its mouthpiece, the Global Times calling it a vicious attack. If Biden had said that Xi was the “leader of a dictatorship,” perhaps he would not have ...

Commentary The United States is the world’s No. 1 military power, while China is No. 3. To catch up with the United States, China will need to maintain a certain level of economic growth. However, given the slowing economy and the demographic challenge, the Carnegie Foundation expects China’s long-term GDP growth not to exceed 2–3 percent. “The world is entering a ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken stood by earlier comments from President Joe Biden calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dictator, saying “the president speaks for all of us.” Biden earlier referred to Xi as a “dictator” during a fundraiser event in California, just a day after Blinken reported having had a “robust conversation” with the Chinese Communist Party head in ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, hours after concluding his talks with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi. Blinken arrived in China on June 17 for the start of a two-day visit, a trip that the Biden administration seeks to maintain open lines of communication with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On Sunday, ...

Commentary The communist Chinese pour cold water on the actions and pronouncements of any international body that excludes China from participation. This is particularly true of intergovernmental organizations that can greatly affect the world economy, as the so-called Group of Seven is meant to do under the leadership of the United States. Since Xi Jinping openly aspires to world leadership, ...

Commentary Xi Jinping has amassed a greater concentration of power than Mao Zedong, and has greater power to suppress domestic and foreign opponents than any Chinese leader in history. And yet the threat to his—and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)—ability to retain power faces challenges of an enormity and imminence that Mao never knew. These threats, ironically, parallel the disruptive ...

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is steeped in numerology as it seeks to convey legitimacy by merging traditional Chinese lucky numbers with crackpot communist policies imposed on the unsuspecting Chinese people. The communists seek to capitalize on the Chinese belief that lucky numbers are associated with good fortune, thus emphasizing certain numbers in promulgating policies. The CCP is particularly ...