www.veteranstoday.com “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” is how Winston Churchill described the Soviet regime in 1939, which is an apt depiction of the machinations of the Chinese ruling clique today.
Pundits had expected that the country’s strict Zero Covid policy, which has for three years been crippling the economy and driving the population to its physical and psychological brink, would finally be lifted after President Xi Jinping secured a third five-year term at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October. However, that did not happen.
According to the United States Institute of Peace, “Xi, like his two immediate predecessors, aspires to occupy concurrently the senior most leadership positions in all the three major constituent components of the party-military-state: the CCP, the PRC and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Having now secured the top party post, Xi is well on track to be re-elected PRC president at the 14th National People’s Congress, scheduled to convene in March 2023. As for the PLA, last week he was reappointed chair of the CCP Central Military Commission (CMC) and in March he will be formally reappointed to lead the PRC’s CMC. (Membership of the two CMCs is identical although the fiction of two separate commissions is maintained to preserve the party-state distinction.)“
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Caravan to Midnight
