Xi, anti-Gorbachev once again demonstrates his absolute power

Xi is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, which is also the largest in the world, with more than two million soldiers.

China’s economic power, which has become the world’s largest factory thanks to the globalization that the West seems to have encouraged and which the West now seems to regret, continues to grow to such an extent that it soon surpasses its only rival, the United States. .

Xi’s political thinking, like that of his predecessor, Mao Zedong, has reached constitutional rank and has reached a level that would envy other autocrats such as Russian President Vladimir Putin.

His power is practically absolute, as evident once again last weekend, when his predecessor Hu Jintao was forced out of the Communist Party Congress, without Xi, who was forced to relinquish his seat in front of the world and sit next to Xi. he would be scared.

Elected general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi even managed to break the post-Mao government’s practice of limiting the number of terms to two, and is now embarking on what will become his third consecutive year.

Educated in the so-called Cultural Revolution, he learned something important from it, and the worst thing a ruler can do is allow chaos to spread in the country: stability and order are the most important values ​​to him.

The Chinese Communist Party’s control over the population is practically absolute, thanks to cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, which, among other things, allows citizens to be kept under constant surveillance and to reward or punish their social behavior.

In his favor, it must be admitted that his economic measures, along with those of his predecessors, managed to lift millions out of poverty, and his fight against corruption among party officials contributed to his huge popularity among the people.

Xi is also something of an anti-Gorbachev: he definitely wants to avoid what happened in the final phase of the Soviet Union, during his last president, whom the current leader of the Kremlin accuses of being responsible for the disintegration. from the country.

As former Australian Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who worked for a time as a diplomat in Beijing, points out one of the USSR’s top experts, Xi is confident that the private sector will seize control if not limited. something he was determined to avoid.

Regarding the war in Ukraine, international observers noted that despite the mutual friendship claimed by both governments, there was a certain distance between Beijing and the Kremlin.

But Rudd, speaking to the German weekly Der Spiegel, thinks that since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Putin and Xi have developed a very close relationship, both “personal, political and strategic”.

Putin wants to stay in the Kremlin until 2036, and the Australian politician believes that Xi will continue to lead China until the 23rd Communist Party congress in 2037, when he will be 84 years old.

“So, I don’t see anything that could overshadow this relationship in the next fifteen years. First of all, Rudd explains, for strategic reasons: Russia is for Beijing to divert US attention from the Pacific region and to fight its main rival with other wars such as those in Ukraine, Syria or Libya. is a decisive factor of discomfort to keep busy.

In addition, Russia has the raw materials needed by the Asian giant and will no longer go to Europe, which was its most important market until the Russian occupation due to the war in Ukraine.

According to the former Australian prime minister, Xi’s main goal is to increase exports as much as possible and make the rest of the world increasingly dependent on China.

Once other states are absorbed by its own gravity, it will be more difficult for them to confront Beijing over issues such as human rights or the rebellious island of Taiwan that Xi wants to one day liberate by peaceful means or, if necessary, with weapons. necessary.