Keep going, try harder, do everything the same but better than ever using the unswerving allegiance to Xi Jinping and socialism with Chinese characteristics. Everything is going wonderfully and now we just need that little bit more wonderfulness to put it all over the top.
Principles and objectives
There’s a poster on the subjects of “guiding principles” and “major objectives” adopted by the Chinese Communist Party for the next five-year period.
The focus will be on “upholding the Party’s overall leadership; putting the people first [wow!]; pursuing high-quality development; comprehensively deepening reform [of what?]; promoting interplay between an efficient market and a well-functioning government; ensuring both development and security,” which will be actualized by “significant achievements in high-quality development; substantial improvements in scientific and technological self-reliance and strength; fresh breakthroughs in further deepening reform [of what?] comprehensively; notable cultural and ethical [wow!] progress across society; further improvements in quality of life; major new strides in advancing the Beautiful China Initiative; further advances in strengthening the national security shield.”
I believe the part about “further advances in strengthening the national security shield,” which is code for further advances in the fields of intimidation, encroachment, and conquest of regions and world.
This championing of markets, reform, people-first-putting, self-reliance and ethics, plus the ouster of numerous Xi-selected generals, is the final result of the power struggle that all the most acute detectors of unreported CCP doings have been telling us has been going on behind the scenes during the leadup to the Fourth Plenum held last week. Xi Jinping seemingly continues as the guy at the top more or less directing the pervasive censorship, surveillance, propaganda, religious repression, imprisonments, forced organ transplants and other murders, putting of people first, and sundry unprovoked aggressions against other countries. The plan is to stay the course full throttle.
Is Xi really in still charge? Is he a puppet? Is he half in charge, half a puppet?
Lei’s proposal
Disappointed by what at least appear to be the non-results of the secret power struggle happening behind the scenes of the CCP’s latest central planning seminar, one of the seers, Lei of Lei’s Real Talk, has offered a modest proposal. Since President Trump is going ahead after all with a planned overseas meeting with the dictator in late October, Trump as leader of the free-ish world should, Lei believes, make the case that Xi Jinping should do all he can to shut it all down. Shut it down, give it up, all of it, the communism, the fascism, the socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Party and its tyranny. Because it’s just not working.
“Say, ‘I understand your opponent is trying to remove you. I feel sorry for you, but there is one way that you can stay ahead of this game…and the regime. Rather than let your opponent take you down and then go through political reforms and become the savior of the country—why don’t you do it? Since you have the power. You’re still the Party chief and the military chief. Why don’t you just end the regime? Because it’s not working for you. It’s not working for anyone.’ Just tell Xi Jinping the problem is not him; the problem is the Chinese Communist Party and the regime. It has failed everyone…. Whoever ends the CCP regime will be celebrated as the hero…. As terrible as Xi has been…in his defense, no one has really shown him a way out.”
Do I agree? How can I not agree? That is, I agree with the hopeless mission, not with such declarations as that Xi, though terrible, is not the problem or that there can be any defense of him of any kind. He is the problem. He and the CCP are both the problem, and there is no defending either one. But yes, President Trump, tell Xi and the other dictators to shut down their oppression, which is hurting everybody, and give up their power.
Fingers crossed
If Donald Trump were to do so, though, during the upcoming meeting in South Korea, out-Trumping himself in boldness and deal-making persuasiveness, Xi would not listen. He would just regard it as a weird negotiating tactic. Some people who have helped the CCP perpetrate evils do repent. But a person who for so long has been so ruthlessly oppressive and murderous, conscientiously doing his best to make everything worse, is not going to suddenly see the errors of his ways thanks to some tough love from his “friend,” the president of the United States.
But yes, give it a try.
