CCP Adviser Outlined Detailed Plan to Defeat US, Including Manipulating Elections

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  1. HK_User

    HK_User A Productive Monkey is a Happy Monkey

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    CCP Adviser Outlined Detailed Plan to Defeat US, Including Manipulating Elections
     
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  2. Altoidfishfins

    Altoidfishfins Monkey+++ Site Supporter+

    Judging by the results of the last election it would appear as though the CCP had succeeded beyond their expectations.
     
  3. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Metal weldin' monkey

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  4. HK_User

    HK_User A Productive Monkey is a Happy Monkey

    The complete article is now a pay for service, too bad I did not capture it as first presented.
    It was originally presented at a meeting some years back and explains what is now proceeding.

    Too bad it is not on every TV screen world wide.

    Their plan is what you see happening and that is to overwhelm the US's capability to react to 4 wars at once and world wide mass globalization distribution of commerce.

    The Ship in the SUEZ Canal is all part of their plan.

    So you think not?

    How come there is only one puny small excavator?
     
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  5. Bandit99

    Bandit99 Monkey+++ Site Supporter+

    One must admit that the ship getting stuck in the Suez couldn't be timed better given that OPEC to include Russia has refused to open the taps so oil prices will soar and our dummy in the white house shut off our own oil and made us dependent on imported oil again...
     
  6. oldman11

    oldman11 Monkey+++

    Wonder how much longer before survival monkey forum is taken down? We need to start talking in tongues or some kind of code. Watch what you say.
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  7. enloopious

    enloopious Rocket Surgeon

    News story: Chinese Propaganda Group Has Spent Years Cozying up to Black Colleges
    (Pasting because they seem to disappear)

    A Hong Kong-based think tank suspected of working as a front group for the Chinese Communist Party has cultivated close ties to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and members of the Congressional Black Caucus since 2014.

    The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation’s (CUSEF) outreach to the black community is part of a broad initiative to cozy up to prominent organizations in the U.S., including foreign policy think tanks and other elite universities.

    CUSEF’s activities have drawn the attention of CIA Director William Burns, who testified at his Senate confirmation hearing last month that he cut ties with CUSEF when he was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace out of concern over “Chinese influence operations.”

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    William Burns is sworn in as CIA director at Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House in Washington, on March 23, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
    Most of CUSEF’s contacts with HBCUs and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members have been arranged by Wilson Global Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based communications firm.

    Since 2018, Wilson Global Communications has disclosed its activities for CUSEF to the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law that regulates foreign lobbying activity.

    According to Wilson Global’s most recent FARA filing, submitted March 22, CUSEF paid the firm $89,844 over the past six months to hold virtual meetings with the leaders of HBCUs and college students. She also had contact with Yu Jiang, a professor at Xavier University who operates the school’s Confucius Institute, which U.S. officials also consider to be an influence agent of the Chinese government.

    CUSEF has paid Wilson Global $667,641 since January 2017, according to FARA filings.

    In its FARA disclosures, Wilson Global says it provides CUSEF with “communications and public relations services, which included outreach to U.S. elected officials.”

    The firm coordinates trips for college students and leaders of HBCUs to China, all funded by CUSEF. Wilson Global has also arranged contact between CUSEF and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

    Julia Wilson, the owner of Wilson Global, has held meetings with CBC members Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim Clyburn, Donald Payne, and others, according to Wilson Global’s FARA filings.

    On July 12, 2019, Wilson Global hosted a virtual event for Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson and CUSEF advisor Alan Wong held at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU.

    Wilson Global says CUSEF’s mission “to build and improve dialogue between China and African American education and civic leaders, and between the youth of China and the U.S. to enhance relations between China and the U.S. in general.”

    Despite the seemingly innocuous goal, U.S. officials and national security experts have grown suspicious in recent years of CUSEF’s links to the Chinese Communist Party and the United Front Work Department, which handles influence operations for the communist regime.

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    James Carafano, with the Heritage Foundation, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference 2020 (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 28, 2020. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
    “One of the top sources of recruitment has been American students in China,” James Carafano, a vice president of the Heritage Foundation and national security expert, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    He said that the Chinese government uses groups like CUSEF and Confucius Institutes to provide cultural enrichment programming for the purposes of “data mining” and potential recruitment of American students.

    “Nothing’s innocuous because essentially everything connects back to the Chinese Communist Party. You can never assume that any contacts are innocent,” Carafano told the DCNF. “The FBI’s been warning about that for years.”

    The FBI appears to have briefed many of the HBCU presidents who have taken part in the CUSEF junkets, according to Wilson Global’s FARA filings.

    FBI special agent Peter Lapp provided security briefings in December 2018 and November 2019 for delegations of HBCU presidents visiting China, according to the FARA filings.

    China’s efforts to cozy up to HBCUs came to the forefront earlier this year during the Senate confirmation hearing for Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the ambassador to the United Nations.

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    US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, speaks during a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York on March 1, 2021. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
    Thomas-Greenfield was grilled during her confirmation hearing over a paid speech she gave in 2019 at Savannah State University, an HBCU that partnered with China’s Confucius Institute.

    During his Senate confirmation hearing last month, William Burns, the CIA director, said that he had concerns when he was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about an existing partnership between the think tank and CUSEF.

    Burns testified that he ended the relationship with CUSEF, which had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years to Carnegie, because he was “increasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations.”

    Burns also said that the Chinese Communist Party deploys groups like CUSEF as part of a “whole-of-government approach … to try and influence political, economic, and cultural developments to benefit CCP interests.”

    CUSEF, founded in 2008, is a key hub of the Chinese government’s United Front Work Department.

    In an Aug. 24, 2018, report, the U.S.-China Economic Security and Review Commission said that China uses the United Front system to “neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party.”

    According to the commission, United Front affiliates also “conduct influence operations targeting foreign actors and states.”

    The organization has developed connections over the past decade with other universities, such as Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University and Columbia University. CUSEF has also partnered with several prominent foreign policy think tanks, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Center for American Progress.

    CUSEF has leveraged those connections to present Beijing-friendly viewpoints on hot-button issues.

    In May 2016, Carnegie hosted CUSEF founder Tung Chee-hwa for an event at which he advocated strongly for Beijing’s viewpoint on control of the South China Sea.

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    Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa attends a closing session in Beijing, on March 20, 2018. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
    At the time, the Chinese government was using its diplomats and other allies to influence an international arbitration court’s decision in a case involving the control of islands in the South China Sea.

    Wilson Global cited Tung’s position as vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which advises the Chinese Communist Party, in its registration as a foreign agent of CUSEF.

    The Chinese government, with CUSEF’s support, began its outreach to HBCUs in 2014 in response to an initiative by the Obama administration.

    The Department of Education announced then that the Chinese government signed a memorandum of understanding with a group of HBCUs to provide 1,000 scholarships to students from the schools.

    CUSEF hosted a meeting in September 2013 between HBCU leaders and Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong, which set the stage for the scholarship agreement.

    Julia Wilson, the Wilson Global founder, is listed as a representative of CUSEF in the Department of Education announcement.

    Wilson Global’s FARA filings provide extensive insight into its work for CUSEF.

    The filings show that Wilson has had hundreds of contacts with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and their staffers regarding CUSEF events in China and the U.S.

    The disclosures show meetings with CBC members regarding the CUSEF African American Initiative in September 2018 and October 2019.

    Wilson Global has also disclosed email communications with the presidents of numerous HBCUs regarding the HBCU-China Scholarship Network, which Wilson Global oversees.

    A proposed timeline in 2017 showed that CUSEF sought contacts with CBC leaders and congressional leaders from a specific group of states: Texas, Michigan and Ohio.

    The CUSEF delegation also hoped to meet with the National Urban League and begin plans for student visits to China.

    According to a document dated Dec. 11, 2018, the HBCU Network discussed a potential partnership with several Chinese universities for HBCU students and faculty “to study and conduct research at Chinese universities,” as well as for “Chinese students/faculty to study and conduct research at HBCU institutions.”

    According to a memorandum of understanding between Beijing University of Chemical Technology, the agreements proposed exchanging research materials, professors and research staff while collaborating on research projects.

    In a document dated Jan. 6, 2019, David Wilson, the president of Morgan State University and chairman of the China-HBCU Network, submitted a detailed summary of the HBCU delegation’s visit to China to Audie Wong, the executive director of CUSEF.

    One of the goals of the trip, according to Wilson, was to discuss the possibility of housing Confucius Institutes on HBCU campuses.

    Wilson said that the HBCU delegation on Dec. 17, 2018, visited Confucius Institute headquarters, where they met with Jing Wei, the organization’s deputy chief executive.

    According to Wilson, Wei discussed the process that the HBCUs would have to follow in order to partner with the Confucius Institute.

    Like CUSEF, Confucius Institutes have come under increased scrutiny over their alleged influence operations.

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    Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 27, 2021. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    In August 2020, the Trump administration designated the Confucius Institute U.S. a foreign mission of China, a category typically reserved for embassies and consulates.

    The HBCU delegation also met twice with officials from another Chinese Communist Party front group, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).

    During the first meeting, CPAFFC officials suggested that HBCUs host Chinese students from rural areas at their schools.

    According to Wilson, CPAFFC officials expressed concern during the second meeting about the U.S. government’s visa process for Chinese students. The officials conveyed that Chinese students might opt to study at Canadian and European schools instead of the U.S.

    U.S. officials have publicly expressed concern about CPAFFC’s influence activities.

    Last year, the State Department pulled out of an event that involved CPAFFC because the group sought to “malignly influence state and local leaders.”

    Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state under President Donald Trump, criticized CPAFFC during a speech to a group of mayors in September.

    “It may have ‘friendly’ in its title,” Pompeo said of the front group, “but it is not so when it comes to American interests.”

    Wilson Global and CUSEF did not respond to requests for comment.

    By Chuck Ross

    From The Daily Caller News Foundation
     
  8. enloopious

    enloopious Rocket Surgeon

    Original story: CCP Adviser Outlined Detailed Plan to Defeat US, Including Manipulating Elections

    CCP Adviser Outlined Detailed Plan to Defeat US, Including Manipulating Elections
    By Nicole Hao and Cathy He
    March 26, 2021 Updated: March 27, 2021
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    A leading Chinese professor—who is also an adviser to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—laid out a comprehensive plan for the communist regime to overthrow the United States as the world’s superpower.

    The professor’s multi-pronged strategy involves a range of malign actions to subvert the United States while strengthening the Chinese regime. They include: interfering in U.S. elections, controlling the American market, cultivating global enemies to challenge the United States, stealing American technology, expanding Chinese territory, and influencing international organizations.

    The plan was explained in detail by Jin Canrong, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Beijing’s Renmin University of China, in a July 2016 speech on “Sino-U.S. Strategic Philosophy” given over two full days at Southern Club Hotel Business Class in south China’s Guangzhou City.

    “We want to be the world leader,” Jin said, explaining Chinese Leader Xi Jinping’s desire for a “national rejuvenation” of the country.

    Dubbed “teacher of the state” by Chinese netizens, Jin is a prominent scholar known for his fiery anti-U.S. rhetoric. He is an advisor to two powerful bodies of the CCP, the Organization Department, and the United Front Work Department, though it is unclear how close he is to Xi.

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    Weakening the United States
    The strategy to topple the United States was composed of two broad components: weakening America through both internal and foreign sources; and strengthening the Chinese regime’s economic, military, and diplomatic power.

    Using a metaphor of a company to illustrate the U.S.-China dynamic, Jin likened the United States to a company president, and China to a vice president who wants the top job.

    “The United States is a middle-aged man, who is good looking, has strong capabilities, and support from most employees,” Jin said.

    “[To replace it], we first need to create the conditions to make it easier for the United States to make mistakes. Second, we should make it as busy as possible [dealing with problems], to the extent that it will feel depressed and want to give up. Third, we should become intertwined with the United States, so that it can’t attack us.”

    Jin said the CCP was thinking of many ways to weaken the United States, which he described as a “very difficult” task. The professor offered four practical tactics.

    1. Manipulating Elections
    Jin suggested that the CCP should interfere in U.S. elections to bring pro-Beijing candidates to power. He singled out races for seats in the House of Representatives as an easy target.

    “The Chinese government wants to arrange Chinese investments in every single congressional district to control thousands of voters in each district,” Jin said.

    He noted with a population (at the time) of about 312 million and 435 congressional districts, roughly 750,000 residents live in each district.

    “The voting rate in the United States is about 30 percent, which means around 200,000 residents in each congressional district vote for the representative in that district,” Jin said. “Normally the difference of votes between two candidates is 10,000 or less. If China has thousands of votes on hand, China will be the boss of the candidates.”

    Jin said China’s ambition is to control at least the House.

    “The best scenario is China can buy the United States, and change the U.S. House of Representatives into the second Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress,” he said, referring to the committee that oversees the CCP’s rubber-stamp legislature.

    2. Controlling the US Market
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    A container ship berthing at the port in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province on May 17, 2019. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
    Ramping up Chinese investments in the United States is another way to exert influence in the country’s political system, Jin said, noting that this tactic has the added benefit of enriching Chinese business people and the CCP.

    “The investment opportunities in the United States are relatively good,” he said. “The U.S. market is open—more open than the Japanese and European ones,” he continued, adding that its benefits include its size, transparency, and stability.

    He said the Chinese regime wants Chinese business people to control the U.S. market, and also for them to develop their businesses in the country.

    To reach this goal, the Chinese regime had tried to negotiate with Washington for the U.S.-China Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The agreement was actively negotiated for the decade prior to 2017, but fell off the agenda during President Donald Trump’s administration.

    Some U.S. companies wishing to enter the Chinese market, and the U.S.-China Business Council have advocated for the signing of a BIT.

    3. Fostering Enemies of the US
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    Intercontinental ballistic missiles are launched by the Vladimir Monomakh nuclear submarine of the Russian navy from the Sera of Okhotsk, Russia, on Dec. 12, 2020. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
    Jin said the CCP’s “strategic task” was to make sure the United States has not less than four enemies.

    Four enemies are needed to stretch the United States’ resources while bogging the government down in domestic debates over which threat to prioritize, Jin said.

    For instance, before WWII the United States had two adversaries, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. “The Americans debated over and over about who is the real threat,” he said.

    “If the United States has four enemies, it will totally lose its direction.”

    Analyzing the situation as of 2016, Jin concluded that the United States only has three adversaries: “Terrorism is definitely an enemy of the United States. Russia looks like another one … Definitely, the United States treats us as a competitor … It’s not enough.”

    The professor said that in the past few years, the CCP had tried to develop Brazil into an adversary of the United States, but was unsuccessful because Brazil “didn’t want to be improved.”

    He said the CCP had pumped a lot of investment into Brazil in the bid to get its support on global issues, including taking stances against the United States. Xi had visited Brazil in 2014 and agreed to invest in infrastructure in the country’s western region, as well as a railway to link ports in Brazil and Peru.

    Jin said the Chinese regime has given up on this approach and is trying to find a candidate to develop into a U.S. adversary.

    4. Causing International Problems for the US
    Jin said the Chinese regime was at a strategic advantage due to the United States’ role as global enforcer: whenever there is a crisis in the world, the United States would have to intervene to maintain global stability, which in turn drains U.S. resources and diverts its attention away from China.

    As examples, he cited the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which he described as “completely not strategically valuable” endeavors that cost the United States “$6 trillion and 10,000 soldiers’ lives.”

    The result was that the United States “wasted ten years [without being aware of China’s development], and let China grow big,” Jin said.

    Another possible tactic is to sell the CCP’s holding of U.S. Treasury bonds to precipitate a debt crisis, he said. According to the U.S. Treasury, China currently holds nearly $1.1 trillion in U.S. treasury securities.

    Finally, engaging in drawn-out negotiations with the United States is also an effective strategy to bog down the United States, while giving the regime the time to focus on developing itself, according to Jin. During such negotiations, the United States wouldn’t take punitive actions against the CCP such as sanctions, and instead focus its energy on preparing and carrying out the talks. Meanwhile, the Chinese regime, which has no intention of negotiating in good faith, would use the breathing space given to it over the course of the negotiations to solidify its power both inside and outside of China.

    Former deputy national security advisor Matthew Pottinger in February warned of the CCP’s “negotiation traps.” Pottinger said years of successive formal dialogues between the two sides, such as the “Strategic Economic Dialogue” allowed the regime to “draw out the clock” and continue its economic assaults on the United States with impunity.

    Strengthening the Chinese Regime
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    China’s first self-developed large passenger jetliner C919 is presented after it rolled off the production line at Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co. in Shanghai, China on November 2, 2015. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
    Jin said the Chinese regime has greatly relied on the U.S. trade and investments to spur its economic development over the past four decades. He highlighted four approaches to expand the CCP’s economic and political power at home and abroad.

    1. Stealing US Technology
    The professor admitted that the CCP has depended on stolen American technology to fuel its growth.

    “China’s industry has a large output, but lacks certain technology,” Jin said. “In the past 30 years, we bought technology, 46 percent of which were from Germany. But the United States has the best technology, but it doesn’t sell to us.”

    He added, “Americans think that Chinese hackers steal a lot of their things. This may very well be true.” Jin said key technology for China’s J-20 fighter jet and DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile was stolen from the United States.

    The regime is also eager to get its hands on American space technology.

    In June 2016, China’s Long March 7 rocket sent an orbital debris clean-up satellite Aolong-1 to space. Beijing claimed that Aolong-1 only brought space debris back to earth, but Jin suggested the satellite had another mission.

    “The U.S. said that [Aolong-1] was collecting American satellites [from the space], and bringing them back to China,” Jin said. “We can disassemble [the American] satellites and reassemble them into Chinese ones.”

    2. Expanding the Regime’s Territory
    Jin believed that the Chinese regime would occupy the whole of the South China Sea and Taiwan in the near future.

    The CCP lays claim to almost all of the South China Sea despite a 2016 ruling by an international court finding that its territorial claims were unlawful. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan also have competing claims in the waterways. Home to rich fishing grounds and potentially valuable natural resources, the South China Sea is also one of the world’s major shipping routes.

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    One of China’s man-made islands in the South China Sea, May 21, 2015. (U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters)
    Beijing has sought to bolster its claims in the strategic waterways by building artificial islands in the area and building military outposts on them.

    “In one and half years [in 2013 and 2014 under Xi’s administration], China has created more than 3,200 acres of territory. The other four claimant states have created only 100 acres in 45 years,” Jin said.

    Jin predicted that the CCP would continue to create more features in the South China Sea.

    He also boasted about the regime’s success in wresting control of the Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines in 2012 with the help of Chinese fishing boats and coast guard vessels.

    “Even if the Philippines wants the United States to take over the reefs [in the South China Sea], the United States can’t guard them,” Jin said. “If the United States stations an aircraft carrier there, China can simply send 2,000 fishing boats and surround the carrier. Then the carrier doesn’t dare to fire at the fishing boats.”

    In relation to Taiwan, the CCP has more ways to bring the democratic island under its control, Jin said. The regime views the self-ruled island as part of its territory and has vowed to bring Taiwan under its fold with force if necessary. For instance, the regime could bribe Taiwanese politicians, ban trade and tourism from China, convince the few remaining countries that recognize Taiwan diplomatically to switch to China, blocking Taiwan’s participation in international organizations and meetings, and assassinating some Taiwanese to instill fear among the population.

    3. Building Global Influence By Leading Projects
    Xi’s global strategy to bolster the regime’s global power has two pillars, according to Jin. One is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the other is the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).

    BRI, previously known as One Belt One Road, is a massive global investment strategy launched by the CCP in 2013 aimed at bolstering its economic and political influence across Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America. The project involves investments in infrastructure and natural resource projects in countries. It has been criticized by the United States and other countries as an example of “debt trap” diplomacy, that saddles developing countries with unsustainable debt burdens while allowing the regime to export its technology and governance abroad.

    “The ultimate purpose of BRI is to team up with the industrial power Germany. Then there’s no position of the United States in the world’s industrial playing field,” Jin said.

    Similarly, Jin said the FTAAP, a proposed free trade agreement between 21 Asian-Pacific countries, would also open a conduit of influence for the CCP in the region.

    The professor also believed that Chinese-backed development banks, the New Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, would work to Beijing’s advantage, as countries that received loans from the banks would then be beholden to the regime, Jin said.

    “We are building up our friend’s circle in the world. We will be more powerful than the United States with more friends,” he said. “Then we can tell the United States that we are the only representative of the world.”

    4. Influencing International Organizations
    Jin also explained the CCP’s plan to exert greater influence over global bodies such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, Interpol, the International Monetary Fund, the International Olympic Committee, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

    The Chinese regime’s goal is for “all these international organizations to be controlled by China. We can appoint someone who speaks Chinese [who represents China] to be its leaders,” Jin said.

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    Chinese candidate to head the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Qu Dongyu addresses FAO members and delegates during the plenary assembly for the election of the new FAO Director-General held at the FAO headquarters, in Rome on June 22, 2019. (Vincenzo Pinto/ AFP via Getty Images)
    During his speech, Jin emphasized that Xi was unlike his predecessors in his ambitions. Previous CCP leaders, such as Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao worked hard to develop the regime’s power but didn’t dare to use it, he said.

    “No matter how much power you have, it’s nothing if you don’t dare to use it,” Jin said. “Chairman Xi dares to use it. [Xi’s authorities] have the power, dare to use that power, and all of its attacks make the other party bleed.”

    Xi’s ambitions, however, cannot be revealed to the outside world, the professor said.

    When Xi took power in 2012, he urged the country to realize the “Chinese dream.” This meant becoming a “moderately well-off” country by 2021, and then a “strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and modern socialist country” by 2049.

    Jin explained that Xi’s target is actually to replace the United States as the world’s only superpower by 2049.

    “[Chinese] Ministry of Foreign Affairs keeps on saying [at press briefings] that China loves peace. But no reporters at the press briefings believe this,” Jin said.
     
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  10. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    I think the democrats plan now is just to cause absolute effing chaos and then there is a fair chance they can get what they want or a small chance they can get more than they know what to do with.
    Someone like trump, bringing jobs back, wages going up, holding our enemies accountable, energy independence, encouraging development of all energy sources, building up the military, making stuff in the USA again.
    That happened and it was an absolute disaster for democrats. The democrats relevance hinges on a few elites telling groups of poor, unemployed people pitted against each other what to think and what to do.
     
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