The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Xi Jinping reads as The Strategist because every consequential move since 2012 reflects calculation over impulse. He abolished presidential term limits only after methodically placing loyalists across the Politburo Standing Committee, the military, and state media.
“Xi Jinping about the level of American resolve. Do they, the Chinese, conclude post-Iran, for example, that the likelihood of American any American leadership to deploy forces in the event of a Taiwan crisis would be reduced as a result of the Iran experience?”
“One, remember in the Gorbachev period it was governed by these dual disciplines of Glaznost and Perestroika, which translated effectively mean Glasnost opening and Perestroika reform. Sound familiar to reform and opening under Deng Xiaoping.”
“Marxism, as we know, is an economic ideology, and it's all about creating ultimately an equalitarian or equal society through an equal distribution of goods. But to be achieved through a process of, quote, dialectical change.”
“And so they acted. But then, through the rest of the nineties, through until probably about two thousand, there continues this internal debate within the Chinese Communist Party about whether we could execute a form of political transition to a Singaporean-style long-term democracy or guided democracy, as they would see it, in order to cr…”
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