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The Most Powerful Person in the World Is China's President

By Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges

September 14, 2022

Many people still assume the U.S. President is the most powerful person in the world. But times have changed. In recent years we have observed two parallel developments: the President of the United States has lost power while the President of China has gained it.

Xi Jinping did not initiate this transformation, but since becoming China’s president in 2013 he has made the country his own. Xi’s transformation of China began with a campaign against corruption, punishing 1.5 million officials after coming to power, including seven from the top leadership ranks (i.e., the Politburo and ministers) as well as two dozen senior generals. Two leading officials were sentenced to death. The purges and show trials served to eliminate any actual or potential opponents and to concentrate power in Xi’s own hands. They also popularized him among the Chinese people as a strongman.

In November 2021, the Communist Party’s Central Committee passed a resolution “resolutely upholding Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole.” It was only the third time that the Party’s Central Committee had passed a resolution about the Party’s own history.

Nationalist rhetoric justifies Xi efforts to expand China’s current territory. He has already successfully brought Hong Kong into line and jailed the democrats, without triggering any major international reactions, and he wants to bring Taiwan back home to the empire while he is still alive. By asserting sovereignty over the South China Sea, he lays claim to resource-rich areas of Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes clear how the international balance of power has shifted. Biden can threaten Putin or beg him; he cannot stop him. Xi Jinping could stop Putin if he wanted to—but he doesn’t want to, because everything is going his way. Putin invaded Ukraine after Xi hosted him at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, where the two issued a joint statement reaffirming their shared worldview. At the time, Putin rightly understood that Western sanctions would not hurt him in the long run, since China would be happy to buy Russia’s gas and oil.

https://time.com/6211110/china-xi-jinping-world-power/

Video: Pompeo mocks Xi Jinping with ‘Pooh mug’ while talking directly to Chinese people in new series

September 21, 2022 Ryan Morgan

In a Sept. 14 video for the Hudson Institute foreign policy think tank, Pompeo launched what he the first in a series of video messages directly addressing the Chinese people. As Pompeo spoke, he raised a “Winnie the Pooh” coffee mug in a not-so-subtle reference to popular memes comparing Xi to the iconic children’s cartoon teddy bear.

“Our goal with these videos is pretty simple: It’s to talk to the Chinese people about U.S.-China relations,” Pompeo said. “And that’s what we’ll start doing with this series over the next few months; and we’ll keep it up.

The first video in this new series was titled “The Chinese Communist Party Does Not Represent The Chinese People.” The video contained both English and Chinese captions for viewers.

“There’s a reason we’re doing this. The Chinese Communist party doesn’t represent the Chinese people, it’s that simple,” Pompeo said. “The CCP is a one-party totalitarian political organization committed to a foreign, anti-Chinese ideology. It started out as a group of brutal radical extremists and frankly not much has changed.”

“The worst mass murderer in history was Mao; his victims mostly Chinese,” Pompeo continued. “The same is true of Deng Xiaoping who murdered pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. XI Jingping continues that communist legacy even today. There is no bigger enemy for the CCP than you the Chinese people.”

“If Beijing thought it represented the Chinese people it wouldn’t spend more on domestic repression and surveillance than it does on external defense,” Pompeo concluded. “If the a CCP represented the Chinese people it would hold a free and fair election tomorrow, but it won’t. The so-called People’s Republic seems to have a problem with its own people.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/09/video-pompeo-mocks-xi-jinping-with-pooh-mug-while-talking-directly-to-chinese-people-in-new-series/

The Chinese Communist Party Does Not Represent the Chinese People

Sep 14, 2022

Hudson Institute’s China Center presents a new series entitled, “Evening Chats with Mike Pompeo: A Message to the Chinese People.” In this series, 70th US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo speaks directly to the Chinese people about the Chinese Communist Party and US-China relations.

In this first episode, Pompeo explains that despite its rhetoric the Chinese Communist Party is a totalitarian, one-party government that neither represents the Chinese people nor governs in their interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giYEuQ5vYM4

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>https://www.legit.ng/1114333-tunde-demuren-biography.htm

….and, it's gone

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>The PLA has taken control of China

Xi knew something was coming for him.

Xi’s participation in the SCO meeting ends a 1,000-day period in which he did not leave China in line with Beijing’s national “dynamic zero COVID” policy that has put the world’s most populous country on virtual lockdown. Xi’s first venture across international borders began with a stop in Kazakhstan for a state visit en route to the SCO Council of Heads of State meeting in Uzbekistan.

Amid Xi’s numerous bilateral meetings with other SCO members, he pointedly did not meet with Modi, despite the recent disengagement by Indian and Chinese soldiers along the two countries’ disputed border.

Speaking with Xi on the sidelines of the SCO meeting, Putin publicly acknowledged Chinese concerns, while also praising Beijing’s “balanced” approach to the conflict.

https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/09/modi-putin-and-xi-join-sco-summit-amid-turbulent-times

Statement by H.E. Xi Jinping

President of the People's Republic of China

At the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Samarkand, Sept. 16, 2022

First, we need to enhance mutual support. We should strengthen high-level exchanges and strategic communication, deepen mutual understanding and political trust, and support each other in our efforts to uphold security and development interests. We should guard against attempts by external forces to instigate "color revolution," jointly oppose interference in other countries' internal affairs under any pretext, and hold our future firmly in our own hands.

Where have we heard "color revolution" before?

Xi left the Summit shortly after delivering this statement, and was subsequently 'arrested' upon return to China, allegedly.

Full text of Xi Jinping's statement here: https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/full-text-of-xi-s-speech-at-sco-samarkand-summit/ar-AA11UxQY