Beijing’s Saber-Rattling Masks China’s Big Problems
Commentary
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his fellow communists know how to leverage Chinese xenophobia to distract rising discontent among the Chinese people. With a nod to lucky No. 3 in Chinese numerology, Beijing frequently plays three cards in its geopolitical card game to focus on long-standing foreign adversaries (enemies) to distract the masses from economic difficulties.
Let us briefly examine those three cards and then identify the underlying economic problems that the CCP and its state-run media have been desperately trying to obfuscate recently.
The 3 Foreign Policy Cards
Attention given to three countries, in particular, is a surefire way to capture the attention of Chinese conditioned over the years to view these three as key adversaries in 2023….