The global implications of Xi Jinping’s formidable power

Already, the Chinese Communist Party has built one of the world’s most effective digital surveillance systems; in future, it could strangle any remaining shreds of resistance inside and outside the party.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been proclaimed for a third term in power along with six men who now make up the totalitarian party’s internal leadership cabal.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY ERIKA SIMPSON

October 26, 2022

Proclaimed for a third term in power along with six men who now make up the totalitarian party’s internal leadership cabal, Chinese President Xi Jinping forebodingly emphasized the prospect of violent reunification with Taiwan, asserting that “we will never renounce the use of force and reserve ...

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