Xi Jinping's Speech and the Personnel Choices

Chris: I definitely think the speech as I pointed out earlier paints a pretty dark picture right of his assessment of the threat that China is under from a hostile west. In China's increasing dialectical sense the US is an implacable enemy right out to subvert China's rise they basically see the Trump administration and some Chinese I speak to say it's worse, he says. Chris: The personnel side sort of backs this up so once again violating these age restrictions Wang Yi the current fine man the foreign minister is being retained but has been promoted to the Politburo. He certainly will replace young Jichur a longtime US expert by the way in the politburo.