What is China’s Party Congress message to the Middle East? - analysis
According to reports China’s leader will stay in power for a third term. This is a break with the past and is leading some to compare Jinping to Mao Zedong, the Communist leader.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Published: OCTOBER 17, 2022
China’s leader Xi Jinping opened the country’s 20th Party Congress, which is widely seen as cementing his unprecedented rule and also continuing to support China’s “zero-Covid” policy and its tensions with the West. Much remains to be seen in terms of what the congress will mean in the future and whether China will move away from its policies, which have brought isolation; and it also remains to be seen what the meaning of China’s decisions have for the Middle East.
According to reports China’s leader will stay in power for a third term. This is a break with the past and is leading some to compare Jinping to Mao Zedong, the Communist leader whose role lead to the China we know today. CNN reports that Xi “on Sunday vowed to steer China through grave challenges toward national rejuvenation, advancing a nationalistic vision that has put it on a collision path with the West.”
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According to reports China’s leader will stay in power for a third term. This is a break with the past and is leading some to compare Jinping to Mao Zedong, the Communist leader.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Published: OCTOBER 17, 2022
China’s leader Xi Jinping opened the country’s 20th Party Congress, which is widely seen as cementing his unprecedented rule and also continuing to support China’s “zero-Covid” policy and its tensions with the West. Much remains to be seen in terms of what the congress will mean in the future and whether China will move away from its policies, which have brought isolation; and it also remains to be seen what the meaning of China’s decisions have for the Middle East.
According to reports China’s leader will stay in power for a third term. This is a break with the past and is leading some to compare Jinping to Mao Zedong, the Communist leader whose role lead to the China we know today. CNN reports that Xi “on Sunday vowed to steer China through grave challenges toward national rejuvenation, advancing a nationalistic vision that has put it on a collision path with the West.”
more............... https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-719891