Loading ...Xi Calls On China’s Top National Security Officials To Prepare For “Worst Case Scenarios”
Xi urged China to carry forward the “spirit of struggle” and “adhere to worst-case-scenario thinking, and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves, and even perilous, stormy seas.”
Xi’s use of “bottom-line thinking and worst-case-scenario thinking” has drawn the outside world’s attention. Wang He, China affairs commentator and The Epoch Times columnist, wrote: “This may be the first time in a top political meeting of the CCP that the two terms are used together. The combination of these two terms shows that the tone of the National Security Commission meeting is really combative.
Xi also emphasized the regime must speed up the modernization of the military, making it more effective in “actual combat and practical use,” as the CCP faces a “complex and grave” situation in terms of national security.
The worst case scenario for the Chinese leadership is that the population tires of their overlords, and decides to do something about it. Pretty much the same as here, I suppose. I wonder if they fear economic upheaval in the near future.