The CPC 4th Plenum has opened, and Xi appears to be on task outlining the economic and social goals for the next 5 years.
I think some of the predictions of Western and Western influenced experts are wishful thinking.
The west should wish Xi stays. He is incompetent in the same vein as Brain-dead Biden and Hor-izontal Harris. He has damaged the CCP to the point it is now facing a USSR-style collapse. The largest bureaucracy in the world is broke and needs to loot Taiwan for survival. Xi is the communist idiot that took them there.
This is all coming from other Chinese.
It may be wishful thinking or otherwise internecine and/or psychological warfare.
But it’s not originating with “Western and Western influenced experts.”