CHINA PROVOKING CONFLICT WITH INDIA AS A PASSIVE WAY

Dragon is well known for its due course and it is established that China’s president Xi Jiping is up for reelection soon. It is reeling from pressure and he has to do something about it. To gain patriotic point he is trying to use India as his weapon. China with full control over its people is trying hard to gain the momentum ahead of the coronavirus situation.

The border clash between India and China was a result of the Chinese leadership “thinking of ways to divert the attention of the Chinese public”, a former professor at the elite Central Party School in Beijing has said.

Cai Xia, who was on Monday expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) after a recording of her remarks criticising President Xi Jinping surfaced this summer, had previously served as a professor at the school for years.

The Central Party School is the most important institution in Beijing that trains CPC officials. Mr. Xi served as the school’s president for more than five years until 2013. The current president, Chen Xi, is a member of the Politburo, and past presidents include former leaders Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Hu Jintao.

Ms. Cai was particularly critical of Mr. Xi abolishing term limits in 2018, which she saw as a turning point for the country’s politics.

“When no one can oppose him, that means that his power is unchecked,” she said. “Since people don’t tell him the truth or hide it from him, he doesn’t necessarily know the truth… Because people cannot speak the truth, Wuhan’s epidemic spread across the country and the whole world and everyone has been harmed. Chinese citizens have borne the brunt and among Chinese people, people in Wuhan suffered the most.”

Stricter disciplinary codes that the CPC adopted in 2016, she added, had further constricted the freedom of expression. “As long as you express a different opinion, you are in violation of party discipline,” she said. “Before, you could still speak out and you would be subjected to enormous pressure, but they couldn’t prevent you from speaking.”

Ms. Cai said a growing number of people within the political elite in China were concerned at recent trends. “I think within [the Party] 70% and among middle and high level officials the proportion may be even higher,” she said. “For many of these cadres, their thinking was most deeply affected by the reform era under Deng Xiaoping. When China joined the World Trade Organization, we fully entered the global economy. Those within the party have experienced the last 20, 30 years and they understand in which direction is right and which is a dead end. We are among a group of cadres who took up our positions after reform and opening. So that is why I say everyone is very clear about what is happening.”

At the same time, China’s relatively quick emergence from the pandemic, coupled with continuing troubles in the U.S., has for others burnished the position of Mr. Xi and the CPC and deepened anti-American sentiment. Fang Fang, a popular writer in Wuhan who chronicled the trauma suffered by the city in a diary recording the early stages of the pandemic, subsequently faced backlash online for supposedly giving ammunition to China’s critics.

Ms. Cai may soon encounter the same response. “When the U.S. is aiming an offensive against the Communist Party,” Hu Xijin, the editor of the Party-run Global Times was quoted as saying, “she should not, objectively speaking, stand on the side of the attacker.”

Beijing is feeling the heat of the moment as they are trying hard to gain some leverage over the coronavirus issue. All said and done their hideous motive will come out soon.