NEIGHBOURS’ NIGHTMARE

FOR THE COLONIES OF CHINA, THE EMERGENCE OF AN UNCHALLENGED AND ALMIGHTY XI JINPING FOR LIFE IS GOING TO BE A SERIOUS THREAT

By the time the 20th Party Congress of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) comes to a close, Xi Jinping is expected to have emerged as the second reincarnation of Chairman Mao Zedong, who successfully headed the Communist revolution and ruled over the CCP and China decisively, ruthlessly and unchallenged for 27 years (1949-1976) till his last breath. While Mao’s rule (1949-1978) is known for consolidation of Communist dictatorship over China and elimination of almost every single Chinese leader, who had even an iota of real or imaginary potential of opposing the dictatorship of Mao or the CCP, Deng’s period (1978-1989) is known for emergence of China as a new economic and military power on the world scene. The history of President Xi Jinping since he took over as the General Secretary of the CCP and Chairman of the Central Military Commission in 2012 and subsequently as the President of China in 2013, has been marked with the emergence of a new China which is arrogant and threatening. His new China is now bent upon thrusting China’s political, economic and military supremacy across the world through bullying and forcibly bending every international rule and institution to the whims and fancies of China and Xi himself.

It’s not therefore surprising that the idea of dealing with a permanently empowered Xi Jinping is sending shock waves among a large number of countries ranging from China’s South China Sea and East China Sea neighbours like Taiwan, Japan, S Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei and other countries like India and Australia, which have been facing Xi’s tantrums since long. The fears of these countries are further multiplied by the stark erosion of the influence of the United States of America and near takeover of international institutions, especially those of the United Nations by China.