News Analysis
Abnormalities in a recent Chinese Communist Party (CCP) meeting’s official statement may signal CCP leader XiJinping losing power, China experts say.
In October 2022, Chinese leader XiJinping held a secret meeting instructing top state officials—overseeing political, intelligence, and influence operations—on a new strategy to target the Falun Gong spiritual group internationally, The Epoch Times has
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When former President Donald Trump took the stage in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Nov. 18, he praised Chinese Communist Party leader XiJinping as “strong,” “smart,” and “fierce.”
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader XiJinping has initiated a strategic shift toward an economic model that could protect China's economy from external shocks, according to new research.
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Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader XiJinping is now starkly aware that he is facing the end of his rule and has turned to U.S. President Joe Biden to save him.
Chinese leader XiJinping told Mr. Rutte during the March 27 meeting that “decoupling and breaking links leads nowhere, and cooperation is the only option.”
After the meeting, Mr.
Cai Shenkun, an independent commentator, said, "The purging of Li Shangfu implies that XiJinping has begun to purge those princelings who are the second generation of the CCP’s military leaders.”
Hu Shuli—the high-profile founder and publisher of Caixin Media—has been in the spotlight lately over a spate of articles that sing a different tune to that of the current Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader, XiJinping.
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There's every reason to suspect that Chinese communist leader XiJinping has more political difficulty than he can manage. But what if he succeeds in managing these threats to his position?
"In short, XiJinping is now surrounded by a bunch of 'two-faced men.’ Therefore, this is probably the biggest political crisis XiJinping is facing," Mr. Yuan said.
It could be a low-profile coup designed as a stabilizing operation, a coup intended to keep CCP Chairman XiJinping as a figurehead, and a coup that could eventually see China broken into regional factions.
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XiJinping has amassed a greater concentration of power than Mao Zedong and has greater power to suppress domestic and foreign opponents than any Chinese leader in history.
A House chairman has asked U.S. organizers to provide a list of executives who will pay $40,000 to dine with Chinese leader XiJinping during his visit to the United States.
None of that is even part of XiJinping thought.”
Instead, she argues, communist ideology has been replaced by a sense that China is in a “hyper-competitive” contest—both economically and militarily—with the United States.