Category: Xi Jinping

China and Russia Are Bigger Issues Than Canberra ‘Intrigues’: Australian Deputy PM

Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has apologised for calling Prime Minister Scott Morrison a “hypocrite and a liar” in a leaked text message. But he said Australians cared more about geopolitical tensions, the pandemic, and infringements on religious freedom than the “intrigues of Canberra” which consumed news media reporting in the country this week….


Most Political Olympics Ever? Why China Always Politicizes Everything, Explained

China is making the Olympics political—meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and accusing the United States of sabotage, while at the same time trying to spy on athletes. The U.N. and its human rights councils are slow-walking reports and visits after the Olympics. So how do we interpret China’s goal in all this? Perhaps secret speeches…


Xi and Putin Announce ‘No Limits’ Partnership Amid Deepening Standoff With West

China’s leader Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on the opening day of the Winter Olympics in a show of solidarity amid mounting pressures from the West. Friday’s meeting also marks Xi’s first in-person meeting with his counterpart for nearly two years. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t left…


CCP Control Over Economy, Military Reaches New Heights: Experts

The expected appointment of Xi Jinping to a third term as head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the 20th Party Congress this fall is likely to lead to ever tighter and more autocratic control over Beijing’s fiscal, military, and national security policies, said experts at a virtual hearing of a U.S. congressional advisory body…


Xi Jinping Poised to Further Consolidate Power at Upcoming CCP Congress: Experts

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is poised to take advantage of the 20th Congress of the Chinese Community Party (CCP) scheduled for this fall, and to use the idiosyncrasies of the communist regime’s top-down structure of autocratic governance to further enhance his power, said panelists at a virtual hearing of a U.S. Congressional advisory body. At the…


Roger Garside Speaks on China’s Internal Issues That Could Lead to Collapse of the CCP

Could an internal coup unseat the Chinese leader? And what factors de-stabilize the regime the most. Today I asked the author who raised those questions and provided his answers. Mr. Roger Garside explains in his book, China Coup, the many factors that could lead to the fall of the Chinese Communist Party. While the regime…


Xi Jinping Signals to Purge Jiang’s Faction: China Experts

Commentary A pro-Beijing Chinese language news portal recently published a series of articles, commemorating “the 30th Year of Deng Xiaoping’s South Tour.” As of Jan. 27, at least nine articles have been published on Beijing-based DW News on Deng’s south tour, which Deng intentionally conducted to voice his policies of the socialist market economy amid…


Biden’s Folly: Where Political Ego and Policy Collide

Commentary The world is at war. Fortunately not the kind with bombs and bullets that level cities and kill millions. But one almost as bad. And no one in charge seems to care. It’s a war against an enemy that can’t be won. One in which the combatants have staked everything on victory. Like all…


Chinese Leader Xi Says Low Carbon Push Should Not Mean Lowering Productivity

China hinted that its carbon reduction initiatives would now move at a cautious pace, after the communist regime’s leader Xi Jinping said that carbon-cutting goals should not come at the expense of the “normal life” of ordinary people. His words come at a time when Beijing has continued to produce coal at a record pace,…


Xi Jinping Seeking “Global Domination”: Mike Pompeo

Mike Pompeo said Chinese President Xi Jinping wants “global domination—hegemony for the Chinese Communist Party,” warning that the rise of the CCP could destroy the rules-based international order in place since the end of World War II. “It’s not about putting a Chinese tank division in Taiwan. It’s about accreting political power and influence throughout…