On Xi's "Constructive Strategic Stability" - Pepe Escobar
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China sets the agenda at the Xi-Trump summit
“The unipolar hegemony of a major power is becoming increasingly unsustainable. At home, its democracy is mutating, its economy decaying, and its society fracturing at an accelerated pace; abroad, its credibility is rapidly going bankrupt, its hegemony is crumbling, and its myth is collapsing.” – Chen Yixin, China’s Minister of State Security
On Xi's "constructive strategic stability" - Pepe Escobar
If all of us are magnanimous enough, we might infer that Xi and Trump agreed on a three-year stability framework. The headline on the front page of China Daily this past Thursday was a thunder and lightning "Red-carpet welcome for Trump in Beijing". Well, complete with electric jumpin' children waving flowers and a visit to the Temple of Heaven, built in 1420, symbolizing the connection between heaven and humanity. Youth meet tradition. The gene…
The chronicles say that, in 2014, as part of an official visit to China, Barack Obama and a newcomer to power Xi Jinping held a personal conversation in which they exchanged their views on the greater or lesser sustainability of democratic regimes vis-à-vis autocratics. That was probably the last time the United States (US) could look at China from a position of superiority, with Obama trying to convince its interlocutor that, in line with the “…
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