It's how things change there - to be expected. Xi has had his run.
Posted on 07/15/2025 5:58:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Great. The world’s two biggest rats...Putin and Xi with their backs to the wall at the same time....
It’s good to be on alert, but if Xi has lost control, it’s because the pro-business moderates have seized power back.
China has lots of billionaires now and they have the means to do as they will. China has always been corrupt for thousands of years. Money talks.................
There is certainly a cliche that a dictator who has political trouble at home may engage in foreign activity to distract his people. But Xi could have done that under Biden. It might have been an effective strategy at the time. But Trump is clearly showing with Iran and with Russia that now is not a good time for some country to make a power grab. At this time, any attempt would blow up in Xi’s face and make his situation worse. He is not a fool. He’ll keep his activity within his domestic sphere.
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Xi’s whole future depends upon the loyalty of the secret police and the military. If he loses them, he’s toast.
I know Gordon Chang from the John Batchelor show maybe ten-fifteen years ago. Gordon Chang is always predicting imminent earth-shaking events in China. So far, none of them has occurred.
Let’s see...who could we get to replace XI?
Perhaps George Soros nee Schwartz
If China’s economy suddenly goes south, he’s gonna get the ‘Khrushchev’ treatment..............
If you walk around with a sign that says: The World Will End Tomorrow!, eventually you will be right..............
The Chinese party doesn’t mess around. I’m thinking that if the 3 Gorges dam breaks, the Chinese might feel a real pinch to change many in the party.
Exactly. Chang has good information and a lousy crystal ball.
I recall listening to John Batchelor. As with you, that was several years ago. John is an acquired taste for most people. He was a very fine reporter, but tended to focus on the melodrama and intrigue.
If Chang believes this will occur, I don't believe a word of what he is "predicting".
Xi’s term as Emperor is no doubt coming to an end. Whether his forced retirement leads to a return of the pro-business corrupt authoritarianism of previous decades or a new form of military dictatorship remains to be seen. One thing is certain: the Chinese government is not going to give up its Orwellian surveillance state - a model which has attracted many admirers in the West.
3 Gorges dam about to blow a gasket
Heavy rains all over China,,flooding all over...big loss of farmland and crops due to erosion and massive urban growth
3G silting up withe mud....broken housing structures and cars.
I don’t doubt Gordon Chang’s sincerity, but he’s been predicting the failure of China for as long as I can remember. “Hyman Roth has been dying of the same heart attack for the last 20 years”
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