Post a Comment Print Share on Facebook

The real threat to Xi is his own responsibility

The People's Congress of the Chinese Communist Party meets only every five years to elect its leadership.

- 13 reads.

The real threat to Xi is his own responsibility

The People's Congress of the Chinese Communist Party meets only every five years to elect its leadership. The event is correspondingly pompous. 2,300 delegates gather in the Great Hall of the People and simulate an election that, strictly speaking, they don't even have. Your job this year is clear from the start: to cement the power of party and state leader Xi Jinping.

In his 100-minute speech, Xi made his ambitions clear. He promised to create a "modern socialist country" while warning of "potential dangers" from outside. But with his statements on Corona policy, it became clear that the real threat to China comes from within: through the president's own loss of reality.

It was expected that the head of state would signal relaxation of the zero-Covid strategy at the party conference. But the opposite happened: Xi described his radical pandemic policy as "necessary". The "safety and health of the people have been protected to the highest degree" and "significant positive results" have been achieved socially and economically.

At the time of the speech, around 30 million Chinese were in full or partial lockdown. If a handful of people somewhere test positive for Corona, this can lead to the total lockdown of the entire city.

Security forces in white protective suits seal the doors of entire blocks of flats, and anyone who tests positive disappears for several weeks in a so-called fever hospital, which is more like a prison than a sanatorium, and public life is of course completely paralyzed.

This merciless strategy slowed down China's economy for a long time. In the second quarter, economic output grew by only a tiny 0.4 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Compared to the first quarter of this year, it has even shrunk by 2.6 percent. Overall, the World Bank only expects growth of 2.8 percent this year.

That's not much for a country that's used to an average of seven percent. Xi's adherence to his zero-Covid strategy is an effective brake on the economy for years to come. At a time when global cravings for power are also, and above all, carried out economically, that may be fine with the West.

Avatar
Your Name
Post a Comment
Characters Left:
Your comment has been forwarded to the administrator for approval.×
Warning! Will constitute a criminal offense, illegal, threatening, offensive, insulting and swearing, derogatory, defamatory, vulgar, pornographic, indecent, personality rights, damaging or similar nature in the nature of all kinds of financial content, legal, criminal and administrative responsibility for the content of the sender member / members are belong.