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| | According to Kyle Bass, Chief Investment Officer at Hayman Capital Management, | | According to Kyle Bass, Chief Investment Officer at Hayman Capital Management, |
| | {{quotebox|Secretary Xi is in trouble within China. According to my sources within, the party elite want Xi gone. The Guangdong elite ([[Deng Xiaoping|Uncle Deng]]’s family) are beginning to rattle the cages of change against the supposed “emperor for life”. #XiJinping #china #ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied<ref>https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1249016519574663169</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/health/china-begins-mass-deletion-online-research-coronavirus-origins</ref>}} | | {{quotebox|Secretary Xi is in trouble within China. According to my sources within, the party elite want Xi gone. The Guangdong elite ([[Deng Xiaoping|Uncle Deng]]’s family) are beginning to rattle the cages of change against the supposed “emperor for life”. #XiJinping #china #ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied<ref>https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1249016519574663169</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/health/china-begins-mass-deletion-online-research-coronavirus-origins</ref>}} |
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| | + | ===U.S. response=== |
| | + | In response to the CCP global pandemic unleashed upon the world, on May 20, 2020 the United States a document titled ''United States Strategic Approach to The People’s Republic of China'' that describes the threat the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to all humanity. Th document states in excerpt: |
| | + | {{quotebox|The CCP promotes globally a value proposition that challenges the bedrock American belief in the unalienable right of every person to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. |
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| | + | Under the current generation of leadership, the CCP has accelerated its efforts to portray its governance system as functioning better than those of what it refers to as “developed, western countries.” |
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| | + | Beijing is clear that it sees itself as engaged in an ideological competition with [[the West]]. |
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| | + | The CCP aims to make China a “global leader in terms of comprehensive national power and international influence,” as General Secretary Xi expressed in 2017, by strengthening what it refers to as “the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” |
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| | + | This system is rooted in Beijing’s interpretation of [[Marxist-Leninist]] ideology and combines a nationalistic, [[single party control|single party dictatorship]]; a state-directed economy; deployment of science and technology in the service of the state; and the subordination of individual rights to serve CCP ends. |
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| | + | This runs counter to principles shared by the United States and many likeminded countries of representative government, [[free enterprise]], and the inherent dignity and worth of every individual. |
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| | + | One disastrous outgrowth of such an approach to governance is Beijing’s policies in [[Xinjiang]], where since 2017, authorities have detained more than a million [[Uighur]]s and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in indoctrination camps, where many endure forced labor, ideological indoctrination, and physical and psychological abuse. |
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| | + | Outside these camps, the regime has instituted a [[police state]] employing emerging technologies such as [[artificial intelligence]] and biogenetics to monitor ethnic minorities’ activities to ensure allegiance to the CCP. Widespread [[religious]] persecution – of [[Christian]]s, [[Tibet]]an [[Buddhist]]s, [[Muslim]]s, and members of [[Falun Gong]] – includes the demolition and desecration of places of worship, arrests of peaceful believers, forced renunciations of faith, and prohibitions on raising children in traditions of [[faith]]. |
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| | + | The CCP’s campaign to compel ideological conformity does not stop at China’s borders. |
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| | + | In recent years, Beijing has intervened in sovereign nations’ internal affairs to engineer consent for its policies. |
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| | + | PRC authorities have attempted to extend CCP influence over discourse and behavior around the world, with recent examples including companies and sports teams in the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]] and politicians in [[Australia]] and [[Europe]]. |
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| | + | PRC actors are exporting the tools of the CCP’s techno-authoritarian model to countries around the world, enabling [[authoritarian]] states to exert control over their citizens and surveil opposition, training foreign partners in [[propaganda]].<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/U.S.-Strategic-Approach-to-The-Peoples-Republic-of-China-Report-5.20.20.pdf</ref>}} |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |