This Year's Olympics Will Double as Xi Jinping's Coronation Newsweek, Jan 31, 2022, Jack Posobiec
"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." So said General Sun Tzu around 500 BC.
Chinese Communist Party chairman Xi Jinping is poised to open the 2022 Olympics in Beijing this week. When that ceremonial torch arrives and cauldron pyre is lit in Bird's Nest Stadium under his pontifical gaze, Xi will raise his hand, and with a small wave, send a message to the world. He's won. Their resistance has been broken without fighting.
If the 2008 Olympics marked China's "coming out" on the world stage, the 2022 Olympics mark a far more world-historic event.
The 2022 Olympics are Xi Jinping's coronation ceremony.
Later this year, Xi Jinping will likely cement his undisputed rule over the world's most populous nation, as well as China's new status as a dominant world power, as he is named chairman for an unprecedented third term at the 20th National Party Congress of the CCP. That term could very well pave the way for a lifetime chairmanship—the CCP has only had one other lifetime leader, Mao Zedong.
The CCP has more than earned the perfunctory criticism it's gotten from the West. In 2019 the Wuhan Institute of Virology engaged in reckless gain-of-function research on coronaviruses that likely resulted in a leak that caused the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The CCP's response? Databases purged, disinformation spewed about soup at a wet market, doctors locked away, domestic travel banned and international flights encouraged and Xi lying to the WHO about human-to-human transmission. Over 5 million have been killed, with billions lost in economic ruin as tens of millions of people were barred from work under lockdown policies. Don't expect any apologies.
Need we even mention the CCP's brutality toward Uyghurs and Tibetans, jackboot crackdowns in Hong Kong and police-state repression of house Christians and Falun Gong? Those abuses, and the militarization of the South China Sea, have gone unanswered by a servile West, as the free island of Taiwan is marginalized from the world.
But of course, no response will come from the neoliberal establishment. The CCP neutered any substantive resistance through a two-pronged strategy of merger with desultory Western elites and acquisition of the institutions of global governance. And boy did it work.
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