#PRC: Why does Xi fear decoupling? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward, @jonathandtward; Atlas Organization; author, China's Vision of Victory LA

Apr 27, 2022, 11:54 PM

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Photo:  This letter, dated 30 June 2014, was sent from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China to the China Foreign Affairs University.


See: https://www.newsweek.com/xi-jinping-makes-announcement-chinas-greatest-fear-opinion-1701224

The Chinese ruler Xi Jinping this month unveiled Beijing's "Global Security Initiative," a plan to "promote security for all in the world." Everyone, he declared, should "uphold the principle of indivisible security [and] build a balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture."

What exactly is "indivisible security?" At first glance, this vague phrase looks devoid of content. "I don't see how new architecture could be built around this, so I think instead this is an attempt to weave China's worldview into the fabric of international security discourse,"
said Jude Blanchette of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies to Reuters.

Blanchette could be right, but Xi's jargon-laden, cliché-filled speech, which opened the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 on April 21, revealed perhaps Beijing's greatest fear. That fear would be the world "decoupling"—one of Xi's favorite words—from China.  . . . 


#PRC:  Why does Xi fear decoupling? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward, @jonathandtward; Atlas Organization; author, China's Vision of Victory LA