Posted on 09/30/2021 6:56:41 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
It's no scoop to tell you the Chinese regime is thin-skinned. Anyone criticising Beijing does so at their own peril and can expect immediate – and often, heavy-handed – payback. And it's not just foreigners who face the consequences. Desmond Shum is a Chinese tycoon who used to be feted at the highest levels of the Communist Party. The businessman could do no wrong until four years ago when he and his equally prominent ex-wife, inexplicably tumbled out of favour. Now Desmond is a pariah of the state, so he's decided to fight back by revealing the many secrets of China's elite leaders.
A bullet point list would do.
Bkmk
That’s probably in the Chinese plans for him, pointy bullets.
I’ll give that list a shot (a really rough shot):
- They make certain personalities — rich, famous, celebrity types — disappear. There is conjecture as to why.
- Money doesn’t matter to the Chinese elite. It’s all about longevity/bloodlines in the Chinese Communist Party.
- Loyalties among party factions shift as rapid rates.
- China started putting the screws to Australia over that country’s insistence on an investigation in Covid origins. They’re not doing it to the US because they’re not strong enough yet.
- The CCP want every country to submit to them.
- Xi is positioning himself to possible be Premier and Chairman for life by changing the constitution.
- Xi’s direction for China is said to be the country’s most ruthless yet.
That’s about it. There’s some more, and it is interesting to watch, but not a whole lot new.
Thanks for the bullet list. While it is not new to many here, it is probably new to many leftists that are clueless. I think our oligarch technocrats better pay close attention too. They will not survive if they continue to destroy America as they are doing.
bttp
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