I think it's safe to assume that China is now ruled by a totalitarian dictator, even if we haven't yet seen clear actions taken to that effect. There isn't a person in that "Congress" who isn't thinking "that will happen to me if I protest."
I feel bad for young Chinese people who were born after the economy opened up. Can't shake the feeling that the world that they've known is about to be turned upside down, and not for the better.<p>Increasingly hard to go back to business as usual with China. And I'm not even sure Xi wants to go back to business as usual.
It is a reminder how opaque Chinese politics is that a former Politburo Standing Committee member can be dragged off stage without comment. Imagine trying to do that to Trump or Obama!<p>Between purge and medical emergency, a purge of some sort seems more likely since the censors got involved. If it wasn't for show it'd be weird to do it in the middle of the public show too. It'd be a very powerful demonstration if that is what it was intended to be.
Communism happened to him. There's a worrying confusion in the west right now in a certain part of the population. People have completely forgotten or wilfully ignore everything we know about the evil every communist system descends imto.<p>West and especially the young people in the west need to wake up. No system is perfect, but that is no reason to adapt a system we know for certain to be worse.
How much effort HJT issue is being dissected by western MSM is a good reflection of how sad state of PRC watching is in the west. And of course it could _only_ be a power move, because the alternative that XJP is a selfless good boi who wants addle old man to go nap, despite bad optics, can't be fathomed.
Seems like BRICS is coming to pass.
Jintao was pro west including lgbt etc.<p>Xi seems to have really absorbed Wang Hunigs philosophy from the book America v America and is rejecting western liberalism.