What’s to become of China?
From here:
Xi Jinping Warns of a Ruling Crisis, Fearing CCP Will Share the Fate of the Soviet Union | NTD
Interesting, though perhaps exaggerated, take on the prospects for the Middle Kingdom.
“Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping warned in early July that if communist party members lose their belief in Marxism and communism the CCP will collapse and disintegrate, suffering the same fate as the Soviet Union.”
“We will take the future and destiny of our country’s development and progress firmly into our own hands,” Mr. Xi said, making his efforts to unite Russia, Iran, and other SCO members to fight against the U.S.-led Western forces.
The authoritarian’s words exposed his concern that communist China would follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union’s collapse in light of the influence of Western democracy and more and more Chinese people rejecting communist rule.”
Well, hmm. What is going on here? We remember the videos of Chinese people locked in their apartment blocks that were not even on fire, like these in Shanghai – a city of 25 million,
Skip to 42 seconds into this April 2022 video here:
Locked Down Shanghai Residents Scream From Apartments - YouTube
The NTD article points to the height of tensions here:
“On Nov. 24, 2022, a fatal fire in a sealed building in Urumqi, Xinjiang, caused casualties, triggering a “white paper” revolution against the authorities’ harsh Zero-COVID policies in China and outside China with some protesters shouting, “Take down the CCP!” “Take down Xi Jinping!”
The terms “fatal fire” and “casualties” could do with some clarification.
Then there’s this startling statement:
“July 1 this year is the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the CCP, which has seen 415 million Chinese people worldwide publicly withdraw from the CCP’s organizations—a global movement that began in November 2004 and has recently seen an average of 40,000 to 50,000 people daily renouncing the CCP.”
415 million deserters from the CCP? Wow, the population of China is 1.4 billion so that’s getting on for 30% (mostly adults?)
“The CCP regime is like sitting on a powder keg, and the awareness of the ‘crisis of the death of the party’ is pervasive within the party,” said Yi Rong, chairwoman of the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, to The Epoch Times on July 1.”
Well, probably nothing. Unless, of course, for some bizarre reason the PLA decides to “pull a Pretorian” and install its own Ceasar!
Onwards!
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