[hinckley buzzard]

CCP has become more bellicose since Xi arranged to get himself named president for life, further consolidating the identification of the Party and the government. It appears he has calculated that this is a time for decisive aggressive initiatives in several domains, following the Party’s holistic approach of a unified mission on all fronts, economic, military, diplomatic, and more.

[originalbuckeye]

I wonder how many Governments were in the know, as to what China was planning.

[Zhang Fei]

[CCP has become more bellicose since Xi arranged to get himself named president for life, further consolidating the identification of the Party and the government. It appears he has calculated that this is a time for decisive aggressive initiatives in several domains, following the Party’s holistic approach of a unified mission on all fronts, economic, military, diplomatic, and more.]

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It’s not a Party thing. It’s a Xi thing. The Party will do whatever Xi commands. Think of Xi as a king and the Party as his courtiers. Xi wants to stamp his name in the history books. He wants to become one of the all-time greats. What rulers do to buy fame for posterity is acquire real estate. Xi is merely the latest in a long line of rulers who have done this, and he won’t be the last.

[Pearls Before Swine]

CCP has become more bellicose since Xi arranged to get himself named president for life, further consolidating the identification of the Party and the government.

Oddly, I read somewhere that Xi had initially been a compromise candidate between different factions, and wasn't seen as a particularly strong executive. And, that that's one of the reasons he achieved the premier-ship.

Bad call, if that was true.