Almighty Xi Jinping

China needs the world to develop and the world needs China. The question is whether the all-powerful Xi Jinping, in affirming this idea, is considering a world at the service of China with its communist ways, behaviour and purges, or a China that complies with legality and international law and, therefore, plays a relevant and respectful role with other competitors.  

Of course we are talking about trade, development and economic power because if we transfer these intentions to the political and social level, the rights and freedoms of democracies in the world are in serious danger. The first is Taiwan because in his speeches at the Communist Party Congress, which has made him the most powerful man in China since Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping has warned that he does not rule out the use of force to regain what he considers territorial integrity with the island of democratic China. His ideas are already being kept as dogmas of an ideology that aims to elevate the Asian giant as the world's great power in all aspects as the culmination of a path that he began ten years ago and that he is now reinforcing with his re-election as the party's top leader, which will mean his safe continuity as president of the country in March. At 69 years of age, Xi Jinping has eliminated from the organs of power representatives of other factions who, with great difficulty, silence and submission, survived the steamroller of his clear and defined ambitions. There is no half-measures, no modesty, no form-keeping. The public purge of former President Hu Jintao, forcibly ejected from the congress hall next to the new leader, is not a symbolic image. It is a demonstration of the power he wields unceremoniously within his organisation, backed to a large extent by the fight against corruption and the cult of money and hedonism, but in reality, as a clear and unambiguous message that he is also directing outwards. 

In this concentration of power, of surrounding himself with unconditional supporters, Xi Jinping runs the notable risk of leaving the power of day-to-day management to someone who has not demonstrated with his measures during the fight against the coronavirus that he was the most capable. This is what happens with this type of dictatorships and new emperors who demand total and absolute followership with an unconditional yes sir! It is a single way of thinking where there is no room for criticism or disagreement and those who are capable and prepared must submit without complaint, even if mediocrity is the ruling trend. China is the technological, commercial, economic and now, with the all-powerful Xi Jinping, even more political and military threat.