The author Cai Xia "was a professor in the Central Party School, where I helped train thousands of high-ranking CCP cadres who staff China's bureaucracy." This article is certainly more substantial than her last Foreign Affairs article.
Looks the article is not behind a paywall. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/xi-jinping-china-weakness-hubris-paranoia-threaten-future
The article is kind of long. It comprises of an introduction and 8 sections. Part1, THE CHINESE MAFIA;
Part2, SHARING IS CARING
Part3, PARTY OF ONE?
Part4, THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
Part5, MR. WRONG
Part6, ACTION, REACTION
Part7, FIVE MORE YEARS?
Part8, XI UNBOUND.
A large portion of the article , Part 2 to 8 are focused on Xi. He does not share power like previous leaders. This makes him a party of one. But Emperor X has no clothes and he is Mr Wrong. His actions would elicit bad reactions. Yet he may still get 5 more years as China's leader which would contribute to make him more ambitious.
As some kind of a conclusion, the author wrote "The only viable way of changing course, so far as I can see, is also the scariest and deadliest: a humiliating defeat in a war."
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The author Cai Xia "was a professor in the Central Party School, where I helped train thousands of high-ranking CCP cadres who staff China's bureaucracy." This article is certainly more substantial than her last Foreign Affairs article.
Looks the article is not behind a paywall. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/xi-jinping-china-weakness-hubris-paranoia-threaten-futureThe below excerpt can make one wary.
| When Xi took the reins, many in the West hailed him as a
| Chinese Mikhail Gorbachev. Some imagined that, like the Soviet
| Union's final leader, Xi would embrace radical reforms,
| releasing the state's grip on the economy and democratizing the
| political system. That, of course, turned out to be a fantasy.
It sounds like a lost opportunity for positive development.
A person who wants good for China would hardly want China to have a
leader like Gorbachyov. I myself am not a Gorbachyov hater, I think
he was well-intentioned, don't see him as an intentional malefactor
(like some Russians do). But his hard flaws were idealistic naivete
and incompetence. The dire situation one might see in Russia in the
90s was less a result of the "Soviet communism" but more a result of
the incompetent reform started by Gorbachyov (and then continued by
Yeltsyn). Westerners love Gorbachyov because "radical reforms" and "democratizing the political system" are fetishes that please their
Western cultism as well as because he made the Soviet people poorer
and more miserable (thus reinforcing the West's prestige). The fact
the writer considers it positive for China to have some analogue of Gorbachyov exposes the writer's motivation and agenda, which aren't
based on the homeland's interest, even if her criticism may include
some valid elements.
The article is kind of long. It comprises of an introduction and 8 sections.
Part1, THE CHINESE MAFIA;
Part2, SHARING IS CARING
Part3, PARTY OF ONE?
Part4, THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
Part5, MR. WRONG
Part6, ACTION, REACTION
Part7, FIVE MORE YEARS?
Part8, XI UNBOUND.
A large portion of the article , Part 2 to 8 are focused on Xi. He does not share power like previous leaders. This makes him a party of one. But Emperor X has no clothes and he is Mr Wrong. His actions would elicit bad reactions. Yet he may still get 5 more years as China's leader which would contribute to make him more ambitious.
As some kind of a conclusion, the author wrote "The only viable way of changing course, so far as I can see, is also the scariest and deadliest: a humiliating defeat in a war."
Basically, advocating "a market economy and a softer governance", - as
the writer declares herself, - does not necessarily require combining
it with support for the Atlanticism. However, it's mostly the case for
such "post-communist dissidents". This kind of intelligentsia seems impossible without serving a master (if not this master than that one).
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