This could mean everything or nothing, or not much, there is nothing else it could mean.
Speculation by China expert Stephen Mosher is that Shanghai 100% Covid lockdowns are Beijinger Xi flexing regional political muscle.
Hopefully he is experiencing a case of bad karma.
I thought he was world leader for life.
Answered Putin’s call for troops and is now serving as a corporal in the Russian army in Ukraine!
Oh say can you see, where the heck is Xi?
Forming a rock band named “Xi Xi Top”?
Maybe he caught Wuhan on his trip.
>>The party rules state that just before the National Congress, a preparatory committee must be established by the Politburo, with the current general secretary of the CCP generally chairing the committee. This committee oversees the election of the few thousand delegates to the National Congress and prepares a list of candidates to be elected to the Central Committee and its bodies, including the Politburo, PSC, Secretariat and the Central Military Commission. It additionally establishes a drafting committee that drafts the work report of the CCP general secretary, and also establishes a group that proposes amendments to the CCP constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Congress_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party
All the work that a US President does between election and inauguration to choose a cabinet and fill top levels of the bureaucracy are done in China before the National Congress.
Xi is pretty busy wrapping up any government reorganization before October 16.
He is more likely taking out a dangerous foe.
Could be bunkered because Putin wants to use nukes
He locked himself down for COVID ,LOL
Maybe he just picked up a bad case of Genghis Kahn’s revenge on his Central Asian journey.
Officials, were handed heavy sentences for corruption-related offenses.
The CCP can weed out the bad ones but it can’t be done in the USA but they can hound Trump many dots not connected yet.
Two schools of thought are in progress. Either a coup against Xi or Xi is consolidating power and taking out the CCP.
Wake me when they film him swimming in the Yangtze River.