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| | …In other words, he has turned them into his own yes-men, abolishing the legacy of Deng’s consensual rule. With Mr. Xi there is little room for checks and balances. He will find it difficult to adjust his policies to a changing reality, because he rules by intimidation. His underlings are afraid to tell him how reality has changed for fear of triggering his anger.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/look-whos-calling-xi-jinping-the-most-dangerous-enemy-of-open-societies-in-the-world/</ref>}} | | …In other words, he has turned them into his own yes-men, abolishing the legacy of Deng’s consensual rule. With Mr. Xi there is little room for checks and balances. He will find it difficult to adjust his policies to a changing reality, because he rules by intimidation. His underlings are afraid to tell him how reality has changed for fear of triggering his anger.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/look-whos-calling-xi-jinping-the-most-dangerous-enemy-of-open-societies-in-the-world/</ref>}} |
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| | + | ===Globalist criticism of Xi Jinping's leadership=== |
| | + | [[File:China-Winnie-Xi.jpg|right|300px|thumb|China banned Winnie-the-Pooh because of the similarities between Winnie-the-Pooh and [[Xi Jinping]].]] |
| | + | The Chinese [[communism|communists]] are godless, corrupt, short-sighted and, like the [[Biden junta]], [[authoritarian]]. A [[cult of personality]] has developed around [[Xi Jinping]] and he has eliminated all significant political opposition so now he is surrounded by yes man. So the government is calcified around Xi Jinping's thoughts and less responsive to citizens' concerns and problems. See: [[Militant atheism]] and [[China and atheism]] and [[Atheism and morality]] and [[Atheism and leadership]] |
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| | + | [[Trump hater]] and [[Russia hoax]]er [[Ian Bremmer]] is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading [[neocon]] [[globalist]] "risk research" and consulting firm based in New York City. According to the Eurasia Group:<ref>[https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eurasia_Group Eurasia Group], Source Watch.</ref> |
| | + | {{Cquote|Xi Jinping now has a command of China's political system unrivaled since Mao with (very) few limits on his ability to advance his statist and nationalist policy agenda. But with no dissenting voices to challenge his views, Xi's ability to make big long-term mistakes is also unrivaled. That's a massive global challenge given China's outsized role in the world economy. |
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| | + | We see risks in three areas this year, all stemming from Maximum Xi. The ill-effects of centralized decision-making on public health will continue with the spread of Covid-19. Xi's drive for state control of China's economy will produce arbitrary decisions, policy volatility, and heightened uncertainty for a country already weakened by two years of extreme pandemic-mitigation efforts. Finally, Xi's nationalist views and assertive foreign policy will increasingly provoke resistance from the West and from China's Asian neighbors.<ref>[https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eurasia-group-publishes-top-risks-110000770.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9yYXRpb25hbHdpa2kub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALIHBwLYbh4x1jBSKOHbkFoiqsLaoqhonc8ESijGhCSTqg_4vZPziF7b68IrhJfdPbu8zQhpV1FHlMfmDjbIVCUk41vltMrI-qnet6U19B6k0rM1ah0MBZcwGSJM3T_BaEciT8RielUcHfC6lAyvEptGfEDOvQ0MpXMp8E-DJ9V4 Eurasia Group publishes "Top Risks" predictions for 2023], Yahoo Finance, January 3, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST</ref>}} |
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| | + | A number of [[neoconservative]] analysts are pessimistic about [[China]]'s remaining a global power. [[Peter Zeihan]] said in 2022, "I do not worry about China at all... I don't think that there is going to be a China for much longer."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKFsn8xwQSw Energy at the End of the World | Part 4 | Demographics | Peter Zeihan]</ref> |
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| | + | China has [[state atheism]] and the fall of the Chinese Communist Party due to economic and other societal problems would cause a large drop in the [[Global atheism|global atheist population]]. |
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| | ==Family== | | ==Family== |
| | Xi Jinpong's father, Xi Zhongxun, was a communist guerilla leader in northwest China in the 1930s, when Mao and the CCP leaders reached [[Yan'an]] at the end of the [[Long March]]. Xi Zhongxon was married five times. Xi Zhongxun was one of the few local leaders to survive later purges, siding with the Mao Zedong faction and rising quickly through Party ranks to become a Vice Premier in the 1950s while still in his thirties. According to sources, Xi Zhongxun was the youngest Vice Premier among the early generation of CCP leaders. Despite his association with Mao's group, said the professor, Xi Zhongxun was also "good friends" with [[Deng Xiaoping]] and was "actually closer to Deng than to Mao." | | Xi Jinpong's father, Xi Zhongxun, was a communist guerilla leader in northwest China in the 1930s, when Mao and the CCP leaders reached [[Yan'an]] at the end of the [[Long March]]. Xi Zhongxon was married five times. Xi Zhongxun was one of the few local leaders to survive later purges, siding with the Mao Zedong faction and rising quickly through Party ranks to become a Vice Premier in the 1950s while still in his thirties. According to sources, Xi Zhongxun was the youngest Vice Premier among the early generation of CCP leaders. Despite his association with Mao's group, said the professor, Xi Zhongxun was also "good friends" with [[Deng Xiaoping]] and was "actually closer to Deng than to Mao." |