On the menu today: One of the most confounding challenges of interacting with China is how much its system and decision-making are a black box — those of us on the outside have little sense of what the internal deliberations are and whom Xi Jinping is really listening to, if he’s listening to anyone. Even more bizarrely, in the past few months, several top Chinese government officials have suddenly disappeared; one day, they stopped making public appearances and showing up at meetings, and their replacements were announced months later. It looks like something akin to a purge is occurring within the top level of the Chinese government, with Xi Jinping removing anyone he's not 100 percent certain is completely loyal to him. Meanwhile, the U.S. has been giving the Taiwanese military some significant equipment upgrades, including one that might make China's new stealth fighter seem a lot less stealthy. One Taiwanese defense-policy expert warned us, "I can assure you, whoever is the president of Taiwan next year, cross-strait relations are not looking good."
'We Can Never Trust Them, because They Don't Even Trust Themselves'
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 | | | | | WITH JIM GERAGHTY October 26 2023 | |  | | WITH JIM GERAGHTY October 26 2023 | | |  | | On the menu today: One of the most confounding challenges of interacting with China is how much its system and decision-making are a black box — those of us on the outside have little sense of what the internal deliberations are and whom Xi Jinping is really listening to, if he’s listening to anyone. Even more bizarrely, in the past few months, several top Chinese government officials have suddenly disappeared; one day, they stopped making public appearances and showing up at meetings, and their replacements were announced months later. It looks like something akin to a purge is occurring within the top level of the Chinese government, with Xi Jinping removing anyone he's not 100 percent certain is completely loyal to him. Meanwhile, the U.S. has been giving the Taiwanese military some significant equipment upgrades, including one that might make China's new stealth fighter seem a lot less stealthy. One Taiwanese defense-policy expert warned us, "I can assure you, whoever is the president of Taiwan next year, cross-strait relations are not looking good." 'We Can Never Trust Them, because They Don't Even Trust Themselves' First, ... READ MORE | | | | |
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