Xi Jinping: China needs to increase the strength of its deterrence.
The latest issue of Quyi magazine published the highlights of Xi Jinping’s lecture to provincial and ministerial officials earlier this year, in which he expressed his latest thinking on the international situation and the direction of China’s economy. In his assessment of the current international situation, he argued that the time and the situation are on the side of the CCP, and that the CCP needs to strengthen its deterrent power. (By Gao Feng/Cheng Wen)
Last Saturday’s issue of Quyi magazine, a theoretical publication of the Communist Party of China, published the highlights of Xi Jinping’s lecture at a special seminar for provincial and ministerial officials in January. Xi used the word “chaos” to describe the main characteristic of the world today, and this trend seems to be continuing. And the global epidemic shows that the leadership and institutional superiority of each country is clearly evident.
Xi Jinping concluded that the time and the trend are on the side of the CPC, and this is where the CPC’s determination and confidence lie. He proposed that “we should both dare to struggle and be good at it, and strengthen ourselves comprehensively, especially by enhancing the strength of deterrence.”
The presence of the word “deterrence” in Xi Jinping’s speech aroused outside imagination. Xu Zhen, director of research at the Hong Kong Institute of Wisdom and Clarity, believes that Xi’s “enhanced deterrence” is not only about expanding nuclear forces.
Xu Zhen: “If we do not count nuclear weapons, not counting weapons of mass destruction, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, in terms of conventional weapons, whether it is the quality of armaments or the level of technology, and from the amount, such as how many aircraft carriers, conventional weapons and force in the foreseeable future, China in the foreseeable future can maintain the second place in the world, and the distance from the United States gradually shrink. “
Xu Zhen believes that the next phase of China will strengthen the development of strategic weapons, but the United States and China will not appear nuclear arms race.
Xu Zhen: “Through the miniaturization of nuclear warheads, through the upgrading of multiple warhead technology for the same ICBM, there are many new technological means than there were decades ago, which can enhance China’s nuclear threat capability to a certain (extent) with relatively small investment in defense spending.”
Referring to the strengthening of institutional construction to safeguard national security, Xi proposed to study how to set up the necessary “glass doors” and add different institutes at different stages to effectively deal with various issues related to national security.
Xi Jinping put forward the general direction of China’s economic development, which is to strengthen the leading role of the domestic cycle in the double cycle, he said “efforts to refine the invulnerable, invincible body, to shape China’s participation in international cooperation and competition new advantages. No one can defeat us, stuck us!” In the whole process of implementing the policy, it is necessary to strengthen the Party’s overall leadership of socialist modernization.
The commander, a financial scholar, believes that the U.S. is wary of China’s involvement in sensitive technologies at an unprecedented level and does not rule out that China will implement countermeasures.
Commander: “That is, (using) the concept of national security as a pocket crime. In any case, when China needs to demonstrate nationalism internally and a tough stance against the West externally, it can use national security as a reason to impose sanctions as well as retaliate against the West in reality. The CCP authorities will claim that the CCP has built a firewall or that China’s press freedom index is the fourth lowest. The Communist Party may say, “It is not that we want to restrict your freedom, but only because the freedom promoted by the outside world is a threat to our national security.
The move, the commander said, is intended to be an eye for an eye.
Order: “Take investment projects that seemingly have nothing to do with China’s national security, but that the Chinese Communist Party feels are vital to U.S. interests, and in the event that the Chinese Communist authorities raise that national security threshold, put those U.S. projects out of the door so that the U.S. feels the pain of the Chinese market.”
The Secretary reminded China not to overestimate the role of domestic investment and internal consumption in driving the economy, while ignoring the contribution of foreign investment in driving the economy. And what foreign investment needs most is precisely a more creditable, open and inclusive environment. Xi’s speech is a wake-up call for them, I’m afraid.
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