Analysis: Xi Jinping Is the Root of China-West Confrontation
Recently, the confrontation between the Chinese Communist Party and major Western countries, including the United States and Europe, has intensified over the human rights issue in Xinjiang. At the same Time, the Chinese Communist Party’s “war wolves” have been attacking almost the entire Western camp, creating a confrontation between China and the West.
According to Wang Juntao, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese Democratic Party, Xi Jinping is the root cause of the confrontation between the Communist Party and the West.
Speaking to VOA, Wang said Xi’s communist approach to solving China’s problems and his attempts to lead the world, as well as his forceful approach to international affairs, have led to tensions between the CCP and the entire Western world.
According to Wang Juntao, Xi Jinping has done wrong in two ways. The first is that after Xi came to power, he stopped his strategy of biding his time externally and began a major march into the international community. The second is that the Chinese Communist Party has escalated on issues such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang, making the international community no longer tolerant of the CCP’s human rights record.
He said, “This personal approach to issues by Xi Jinping has forced the European Union to stand with the United States.”
Hu Ping, editor-in-chief emeritus of Beijing Spring, shares this view. He believes that Xi Jinping is undoubtedly the root cause of the U.S.-China conflict. What the Chinese Communist Party did in Hong Kong and in Xinjiang was beyond the American imagination, which is why the U.S. has shifted its attitude toward the Chinese Communist Party.
That’s why Xi Jinping is called the chief accelerator,” said Hu Ping. Because it is Xi Jinping who has accelerated the radical change in the strategic direction of the CCP and the conflict and confrontation between the United States and China.”
U.S. “misreads” Xi’s accelerated left turn after 19th National Congress
U.S. officials have previously revealed that Washington’s miscalculation of Xi Jinping was the biggest strategic miscalculation of the United States.
According to a December 28, 2020 article in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials initially mistook Xi, like Hu Jintao, for a commitment to the steady development of U.S.-China relations and the promotion of China’s closer integration into the U.S.-led global order.
The article said that many in China and abroad mistakenly believed that Xi, who suffered because of Mao growing up, might become an opponent of personal dictatorship after the Mao era ended. Surprisingly, however, Xi Jinping has brought Maoism back to power as a basis for the legitimacy of the CCP and his own rule.
In the eight years since Xi took power, he has set the tone for the CCP’s foreign expansion by proposing the so-called “Chinese Dream” and creating a “global community of Destiny,” which has led the U.S. and China to a hostile position.
However, some analysts believe that the reason why the Western world has “lost sight” of Xi is because of his sudden shift to the left since the 19th CPC National Congress. Xi’s shift in stance is what led to the deterioration of U.S.-China relations.
At the beginning of his rise to power, Xi once signaled that he wanted to lead China toward democracy, and in a speech in Indonesia in 2013, Xi quoted Chiang Ching-kuo’s motto: “If you care about profit, you care about the world. At the time, there was speculation whether Xi was going to follow Chiang Ching-kuo’s lead and lead the Chinese people to the path of constitutionalism and democracy.
In 2015, Xi Jinping and President Ma Ying-jeou of the Republic of China held the “Xi-Ma meeting”, the first public meeting between leaders across the Taiwan Strait, which eased cross-strait relations.
In 2017, Xi Jinping traveled to the United States for the first time to meet with former President Donald Trump (Trump). During the meeting, he publicly said, “We have a thousand reasons to make the U.S.-China relationship better, and not one reason to make it worse.” And he promised to improve the U.S.-China trade relationship.
However, after the 19th Communist Party Congress, Xi Jinping led the 6 Standing Committee to take the oath to the communist nostrum and began a high-profile commemoration of Marx to invoke his soul. Xi Jinping’s reappointment of such “sweethearts” as Wang Huning, a member of the Jiang faction Standing Committee, has led to a steady stream of bad luck and a rapid reversal of his impression to the outside world.
After the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S.-China relationship has been on a downward spiral ever since. Chinese Communist Party insiders have used the Hong Kong media to leak the news that Wang Huning is the culprit for “misleading” Xi Jinping and intensifying the trade war.
More recently, on the issue of human rights in Xinjiang, Wang Huning’s propaganda system has stirred up domestic public opinion, provoking a cotton boycott in Xinjiang and intensifying the conflict between the CCP and the West. According to the outside world, Xi’s series of misjudgments and “War Wolf” diplomacy have not only smashed Sino-US relations and Sino-European relations, but also prompted the entire Western camp to join hands against the CCP.
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