In a poorly veiled warning to the West, President Xi Jinping promised to make China an even more powerful nation by declaring that its military will turn into a ‘Great Wall of Steel’ while he was in office for an unprecedented third term.
The Chinese premier also emphasized the necessity of improving China’s capacity to maintain both public and national security when speaking at the National People’s Congress.
China Great Wall of Steel
During the conclusion of the annual parliament in Beijing on Monday, he remarked that “security is the cornerstone of development and stability is the necessity for prosperity.” He addressed 3,000 delegates.
In addition, Xi, 69, promised to transform the military into a ‘Great Wall of Steel’ to defend China’s sovereignty amid escalating hostilities with the US and some of its neighbors.
In his statement at the end of the annual session of the Chinese legislature, the National People’s Congress, Xi highlighted maintaining the leadership of the CPC and the centralized, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the top policy body of the party (NPC).
Similar to Mao Zedong, the party’s founder, Xi is considered the core leader of the organization.
After getting the rubber-stamp Parliament’s assent to assume the roles of President and head of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the Chinese military’s highest command, his new five-year term as president formally began last week.
The only leader to hold more than two five-year terms after Mao, he was elected as the head of the CPC for an extraordinary third term in October of last year. All of his predecessors retired after serving two five-year terms, making him the sole leader to serve a third.
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Xi Jinping Aims to Expand Global Dominance
The following is the text of the address given by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, on the occasion of the inauguration of the United States of America.
It must also fight off outside interference and develop greater scientific and technological independence and might, he continued.
His stern statements coincide with the UK’s announcement that it would increase its military spending by $6 billion as part of an updated plan to address the growing challenges from China and Russia.
China is blamed for posing an epoch-defining threat to the kind of international order we want, both in terms of security and values.
While Mr. Sunak agreed the Asian powerhouse is the biggest ‘state-based challenge to our economic security’, he has refused Tory requests to tag it a wider threat, saying that would not be ‘wise or sophisticated foreign policy’.
There is much to applaud in this realistic update, but the danger from China cannot be regarded as merely economic; to do so would be to misunderstand the PRC’s (People’s Republic of China) strategic objective to undermine our security and sovereignty.
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