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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]
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| 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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To: GreenLanternCorps
Sorry, trying to be funny.
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posted on
09/24/2022 4:53:33 PM PDT
by
hardspunned
(former GOP globalist stooge)
To: Louis Foxwell
I wonder if it was a fake coup trap set up to further consolidate Xi’s power.
To: SeekAndFind
Gordon Chang has been wrong about China for 20+ years.
To: Husker24
Jennifer Zeng talks about the rumors surrounding Xi in this video posted last night. She made a good point that if there was a successful coup, the coup plotters wouldn’t waste any time announcing they’ve seized power.
Something seems to be up with Xi not making any recent public appearances, but given the clampdown on media in China it might take awhile for news of what really happened (or not) to leak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cPXsqEdOvA
To: Trumpisourlastchance
RE: Gordon Chang has been wrong about China for 20+ years.
So, if he’s wrong about China today, that means there REALLY is a coup then?
To: Husker24
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posted on
09/24/2022 5:08:05 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
To: SlipperySlope99
RE: given the clampdown on media in China it might take awhile for news of what really happened (or not) to leak.
When then, Vice Chairman of the CCP Lin Biao attempted a coup on Mao Zhe Dong in September 13, 1971 ( and died in a plane crash when his plot was discovered and he tried to escape ), how long did the news leak out of the country before the world knew about it?
To: SeekAndFind
I’m probably not the right person to ask considering I was -4 years old. :)
I’m going to read up on this later tonight it’s the first I’ve heard about this event.
To: God luvs America
Yeah. I think it’s right. Not troubling.
Power struggle prior to big five year ChiCom pow wow.
I hope they all do each other in.
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posted on
09/24/2022 5:22:05 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: ifinnegan
Exactly. China is in a lot of trouble- the economy is close to shambles, the infrastructure is crumbling and the military is uber corrupt.
Great article in the Epoch Times about it a few months ago. As they said- everyone showers the Chicom military with praise but promotions are bought in the military and they’ve not been in a war for more than half a century.
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posted on
09/24/2022 5:41:49 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: SeekAndFind
Placing a dictator under house arrest is risky business. When he is rekeased he may just go on a revenge binge with all the bloody consequences.
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posted on
09/24/2022 6:09:48 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
To: Husker24
The longer it is that we dont see Xi on tv the more likely it didn’t fail. And the more likely the next leader of China will be Wo Fat.
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posted on
09/24/2022 6:18:56 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(Patriot Front Is Trained by an Undercover Fed Golden Retriever)
To: SeekAndFind
I tend to believe Gordon Chang.
To: SeekAndFind
“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.”
Hopefully mass suicides.
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posted on
09/24/2022 8:54:01 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
To: SeekAndFind; All
Neither China nor Russia are out to conquer the USA . Why would they want to ? But Neocons in USA who believe in hegemonism / globalism see these 2 powers as a huge obstacle to what they want to achieve .
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posted on
09/25/2022 5:41:54 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: SeekAndFind
Article written by Sum Ting Wong?
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