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Gordon Chang to Newsmax: 'Something Is Terribly Wrong' in China; "We don't think that there has actually been a coup, but at this point there have been some extremely troubling developments at the top of the Communist Party" [VIDEO]
NewsMax ^ | 09/24/2022 | Eric Mack

Posted on 09/24/2022 3:38:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

While the reports of an attempted coup against Chinese President Xi Jinping are likely untrue, Far East foreign affairs expert Gordon Chang tells Newsmax where there is "smoke" there is likely some sort of "fire somewhere."

"There's been a lot of smoke — that says there is a fire somewhere," Chang told "Saturday Agenda." "We don't think that there has actually been a coup; but at this point there have been some extremely troubling developments at the top of the Communist Party, as well as the top of the People's Liberation Army, which reports to the party.

"So something is terribly wrong."

The rumors themselves are a potential campaign to give Xi a proverbial "punch in the gut," if not to keep Xi from remaining the leader for a third term, Chang told host Kilmeny Duchardt.

"Xi Jinping has jailed three figures, some of them for life sentences; so that by itself roils the situation. But the mere fact that someone is trying to destabilize the regime — and that's really, I think, the source of these rumors — says that at this point, the regime itself is going through turmoil," Chang said.

"They're going to have their 20th national congress, which starts on the 16th of next month; and that's where Xi Jinping either gets or doesn't get his unprecedented third term as general secretary of the party: in other words, China's ruler. And that means, I think, that we see some senior figures figure that they can try to give Xi Jinping a punch in the gut before then."


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1morekaren; 1moretime; ccp; china; coup; xijinping
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1 posted on 09/24/2022 3:38:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Troubling??


2 posted on 09/24/2022 3:39:33 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SeekAndFind

And that means, I think, that we see some senior figures figure that they can try to give Xi Jinping a punch in the gut before then.”

Or, Xi punches them first.


3 posted on 09/24/2022 3:41:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: God luvs America

Perhaps, maybe Soros is up to his old tricks again.


4 posted on 09/24/2022 3:41:45 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: God luvs America

We live in interesting times


5 posted on 09/24/2022 3:41:59 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: SeekAndFind

Klaus Schwab and WEF now control China ?


6 posted on 09/24/2022 3:43:49 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

The CCP tries to present a united face to the world.

However, There is an opposition faction within the CCP that is against Xi Jing Ping having an unprecedented third term.

The most prominent supporters of this opposition are the former Presidents, Jiang Zhemin and Hu Jin Dao.


7 posted on 09/24/2022 3:46:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: tet68

Sounds like a failed coup.


8 posted on 09/24/2022 3:52:38 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Seek refuge in Christ. He is your sword and shield.)
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To: hardspunned

Maybe Biden can spare a few FBI agents to help his buddy Xi investigate subversives.


9 posted on 09/24/2022 3:52:50 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: SeekAndFind

Well it is Sept 24


10 posted on 09/24/2022 3:54:18 PM PDT by al baby (Yes i know it was Gere )
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To: al baby

RE: Well it is Sept 24

What’s the significance of that date?


11 posted on 09/24/2022 3:54:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Louis Foxwell

The longer it is that we dont see Xi on tv the more likely it didn’t fail.


12 posted on 09/24/2022 3:56:48 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Time to clean house.


13 posted on 09/24/2022 4:05:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: hardspunned

The Red Chinese don’t give two figs about George Soros.
The CCP tends to arrest or impoverish at the stroke of a pen Chinese billionaires who annoy them.


14 posted on 09/24/2022 4:08:23 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: SeekAndFind
RE: Well it is Sept 24

What’s the significance of that date?

A video was recently seen of an important German politician saying something like "We will always remember where we were on Sept 24". Since Sept 24 had not yet happened, some people thought that a major event was being planned by the Globalists.

Last I heard, this was being excused as an old video, and a mis-statement. Apparently, the German meant "Feb 24" which was the date that Russia invaded Ukraine.

But who really knows? And I think perhaps he was not alone in his "mis-statement" and that other figures had casually mentioned that "Sept 24" was going to change everything.

15 posted on 09/24/2022 4:17:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: butlerweave; hardspunned

Sorry, Soros, Schwab, and the others who consider themselves the global elites are pikers against the Xi and/or the other Central Committee members. The Party could care less about them, except where Party leadership can leverage them to weaken the U.S. and other western powers.

Whatever is or is not going on inside the Red Chinese leadership, is an intra-Party fight (perhaps literally) and the winners will then let Soros and his fellow travelers to whom they are now satraps, and now must kowtow.


16 posted on 09/24/2022 4:18:43 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: GreenLanternCorps

We’ll put, see my #16.


17 posted on 09/24/2022 4:20:15 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Gordan Chang has predicted the last ten coups in Communist China.


18 posted on 09/24/2022 4:23:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

RE: The CCP tends to arrest or impoverish at the stroke of a pen Chinese billionaires who annoy them.

Well, we’re back to the same 2 year old question — WHERE ON EARTH IS JACK MA?


19 posted on 09/24/2022 4:32:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

I did not seriously put Soros out there. The Chicoms are much too savvy to be taken in by his schtick. He wouldn’t last a minute in China. Whether there is turmoil unfolding in the Chinese hierarchy or not, the semblance of such could usually be used for leverage as a “mad man” ploy. Kissinger was famous for peddling this on the Chicoms themselves concerning Nixon. Now it seems every world leader is trying to out mad man each other. The fools clamoring for Putin’s head don’t bother to ask what comes next. If there is movement against Xi, my money’s on the hardliners fearing Xi is about to squander this incredible American weakness and not take Taiwan now.


20 posted on 09/24/2022 4:52:46 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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