Chinese President Xi Jinping defended the US policy. zero covid and pointed National Security Indispensable for achieving social success in the opening speech of the Communist Party Congress. Only the brevity was surprising, barely an hour and a half compared to the previous one’s more than three hours. The balance of the last five years and the strategies with which he planned to confront a complex internal and external context have gone through well-known paths. Xi exchanged his great achievements such as: environmental defense and fight against corruption, with indirect allusions to the United States as a distorting element. Policy continuity is the only rational way in a congress to determine Xi’s third term as party chairman.
Of the more than 2,000 representatives who attended the meeting, only 25 Politburo members and a handful of elderly delegates were exempted from the mask. Great Hall of the People. The staging has already advanced the defense of the zero covid policy. “With our dynamic policy, we have prioritized people and life. We have achieved maximum results in the prevention and control of zero covid and epidemic, social and economic development.” There is no doubt about the first: the country with one-fifth of the world’s population, less than six thousand dead. There is the second: quarantines and other restrictions on movement brutally punish the economy. This year’s GDP growth will miss the government’s forecast for the first time in decades, with thousands of businesses shutting down and youth unemployment around 20%. This dichotomy between lives and the economy still holds true, with scientific warnings of a disaster if China pulls back on its policy, as well as the primacy of the former. China has no major problems today, shackled to restrictions that are slowing the economic return and causing growing fatigue in the population.
The president described the five years since the last congress as “one year”.extremely abnormal period”. Covid epitomizes the volatility of time. Xi announced in his 2017 speech that China would open up to the world, and this came to the country in isolation as it had been before the reforms. In the context of these wars, epidemics, and other uncertainties, the president has lit the way:We must strengthen our sense of hard work, stick to the party mindset, and prepare for danger in times of peace, rainy, strong winds and stormy days.“, he advised.
Common prosperity, a Maoist concept that Xi bailed out last year, shone in the conversation. However, it refers to the alleviation of social inequalities after eliminating extreme poverty. It is a target that is already on the roadmap, but the economic formula could not get rid of the changing picture. Liberal commitments are buried making more room for the market or weakening state companies that were declared close and necessary a decade ago.
“The international situation has changed, especially due to the trade war with the United States. The party’s reading is that a strong public sector is the best guarantee for meeting growth targets and overcoming challenges. This does not mean that the private sector has lost its role, but hu jintao [predecesor de Xi] further expansion of the market. The ideological space was also strengthened to facilitate economic leverage, and the path to the private sector, which felt it would have more weight in decision-making, was cut off,” he said. Xulio RiosFormer director of the China Policy Observatory.
National security has been the most recurring concept in almost recent years. 15,000 word speech. He explained that maintaining it requires a healthy party, so the corruption campaign that has punished more than a million members in his decade in power will continue. Internationally, it has echoed approaches that have taken the United States as the buyer since the first world power set a collision course towards the second. “China categorically opposes any kind of hegemony and power politics.“Xi opposes the Cold War mentality, opposes interference in other countries’ internal affairs, and opposes double standards,” he said.
Delivering the routine of speaking, the day attracted the interest of counting absences and presences. He was not the ex-president Jiang FloorThe influence of capital in Chinese politics of the past three decades was eventually overcome by age (96 years) and political purges in his clan. yes it was me Zhang Gaoli, Former deputy prime minister, who was not seen for months, accused by tennis player Peng Shuay from sexual abuse.