In remarks at the Stanford University Hoover Institution conference, "China on the Eve of the Winter Olympics: Hard Choices for the World's Democracies," the 91-year-old Soros delivered extremely harsh remarks on Xi. He reviewed the history of China's communist leaders since Mao, whom he calls a catastrophe for China, through to Mao's rival, Deng Xiao Peng, who opened China to western investment in the 1980s. Soros describes Deng in glowing terms: "...Deng Xiaoping, who recognized that China was woefully lagging behind the capitalist world...He invited foreigners to invest in China, and that led to a period of miraculous growth that continued even after Xi Jinping came to power in 2013."
Hard Critique of Xi
Deng's successors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, were careful not to violate the opening up market economic success initiated by Deng. However after Xi Jinping took power in 2012, Soros notes, "Since then, Xi Jinping has done his best to dismantle Deng Xiaoping's achievements. He brought the private companies established under Deng under the control of the CCP and undermined the dynamism that used to characterize them. Rather than letting private enterprise blossom, Xi Jinping introduced his own 'China Dream' that can be summed up in two words: total control. That has had disastrous consequences."
Soros identifies what he calls a sharp internal factional struggle inside the CCP: "Xi Jinping has many enemies. Although nobody can oppose him publicly because he controls all the levers of power, there is a fight brewing within the CCP that is so sharp that it has found expression in various party publications. Xi is under attack from those who are inspired by Deng Xiaoping's ideas and want to see a greater role for private enterprise." The key date he notes is the October CCP Party Congress, where Xi plans to break the two-term limit on Chinese presidents set by the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
Internal Factional Wars?
According to SinoInsider, a New York-based China political risk consultancy which specializes in analysis of internal factions within the China CCP elites, since he came to power in 2012, Xi has moved to consolidate unrivalled power over opposing factions, the most formidable opposition being that of Jiang Zemin and the so-called Shanghai Group, as well as many so-called princelings - sons and daughters of former high ranking officers and officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the 1949 era of the revolution. This faction war, they say, is behind Xi Jinping's crackdown on select Chinese private giant companies such as Jack Ma's Alibaba Group.
According to Japanese senior journalist, Katsuji Nakazawa, who was chief China correspondent for Nikkei, "One source familiar with Chinese politics said that the interest groups targeted by Xi include tech giants such as Ant Group, Alibaba Group and Didi, major property developers such as China Evergrande Group and Fantasia Holdings Group, as well as the tutoring school industry. This cluster of private companies tends to be close to the politicians who pretend to obey Xi but secretly hold grudges; the companies often financially back such political forces. Among these forces is the Shanghai clan, led by former President Jiang Zemin and his close aide, former Vice President Zeng Qinghong. They maintain strong influence in political and bureaucratic circles that move the economy."
If this is accurate, it would suggest that in order to decapitate his internal rivals, Xi has risked plunging China's economy, especially its bloated real estate sector with its huge debts, into what seems to be in an uncontrolled collapse that could bring China into a real economic depression just before his critical October 20th Party Congress where he clearly seeks an unprecedented third term.
Ominous New Tone
This is apparently the background that Soros clearly references in his remarks at Hoover Institution. He states, "China is facing an economic crisis centered on the real estate market, which has been the main engine of growth since Xi Jinping came to power in 2013. The model on which the real estate boom is based is unsustainable. People buying apartments have to start paying for them even before they are built. So, the system is built on credit. Local governments derive most of their revenues from selling land at ever-rising prices."
In his Hoover remarks, Soros also refers to the grave issue of ongoing demographic collapse in China which is ending the previous pool of low wage labor that spurred the dramatic growth of the past thirty years. He claims, "the actual population is about 130 million lower than the official figure of 1.4 billion. This is not widely known, but it will aggravate the real estate crisis, produce labor shortages, fiscal strain and a slowdown in the economy."
And making Xi's situation more precarious, Soros notes that far from the brilliant success praised two years ago by WHO and others of the XI covid strategy, there is the debilitating impact on the economy of Xi's heralded "zero tolerance" covid lockdown strategy that is closing entire cities such as Xi'an, and the huge container port city, Tianjin.
Soros' concluding words are ominous and foreboding about Xi Jinping's prospects: "Given the strong opposition within the CCP, Xi Jinping's carefully choreographed elevation to the level of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping may never occur. It is to be hoped that Xi Jinping may be replaced by someone less repressive at home and more peaceful abroad. This would remove the greatest threat that open societies face today and they should do everything within their power to encourage China to move in the desired direction." Can it be that powerful circles in the globalist elite have concluded that Xi is no longer useful to their agenda?
The Hoover Institution speech is not the first time Soros has been critical of China of late, though it is far the most explicit in advocating an end to the Xi rule. In a September 6, 2021 Wall Street Journal OpEd, Soros wrote a sharp rebuke of fellow Wall Street investor BlackRock for its recent decision to open a Chinese mutual fund: "It is a sad mistake to pour billions of dollars into China now. This is likely to lose money for BlackRock customers and, more importantly, harm the national security interests of the US and other democracies." Soros went on to say, "The BlackRock Initiative threatens the national security interests of the US and other democracies because money invested in China will help advance President Xi's regime, which is repressive at home and aggressive abroad... He is intensely nationalistic and he wants China to become the dominant power in the world. "
The fact that so influential a globalist as George Soros openly calls for the end of the Xi era suggests that a major faction within the Western globalists has decided to do whatever possible to bring a more "pliable" leadership in Beijing. Globalists at the level of Soros or Schwab do not make major interventions impulsively. The fact Soros is doubling down in his attacks directly on Xi suggest that a very powerful group of the Davos Great Reset green agenda have decided that Xi has become an obstacle to their dystopian agenda to eliminate the nation state everywhere, including China and USA.
Could it be that a nationalist Xi Jinping, who has declared intent in recent months to annex Taiwan by force if necessary, after forcefully ending the Sino-Anglo HongKong treaty in 2020, is endangering the entire globalist Davos Great Reset agenda? Soros is an Agenda Contributor of Schwab's World Economic Forum and frequent guest to Davos. His son, Alexander Soros, is the Deputy Chair of the Open Society Foundations and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders of 2018. Moreover Soros' decades of funding Color Revolutions since the 1980's arguably have advanced the end of the nation-state through collapsing regimes everywhere from the Soviet Union in 1991 to the Arab Spring in 2011 and Ukraine in 2014. Could it be that the Davos circles around Soros have decided to actively join the party rivals of the CCP to help topple Xi?
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".
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I don't trust a country one inch that hunts down their own people, cuts then up, and sells their organs.
" I don't trust a country one inch that hunts down their own people, cuts then up, and sells their organs."
You read it on WALT DISNEY cartoons???
Focuse better in Clown KOSSOVO criminal country, as well ISIS terrorist in SIRIA:
all the HUMAN ORGANS are selling to ISRAEL, SWISS & USA ...............
I don't think "they" have any nationality or national allegiances, and use countries and people as they see fit. As they used the US, and might use China.
Remember China was a stagnant ticking over cautiously part of the world until the "chosen" (who having no nationality or allegiences) gave China their "manufacturing" from stolen American intellectual property (patents mainly), they even convinced an American jet to fly into Chinese airspace so it could be "reverse engineered" to get around top military espionage.
Russia is the grain producing leader if the US weakens beyond repair.
Russia has too few people (142 million), only 8 per square kilometer, mostly concentrated in a few large cities in the European part.
China has about ten times as much citizens at half the area, with severe food supply issues lately, and hundreds of different occupied ethnicities, dealing with hundreds of riots per year.
I can see the pressure, and the motive.
Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush Sr. publicly nurtured these networks in the Warsaw Pact countries, organizing vast economic and military sabotage operations. It was not until the collapse of the USSR that they came to light and were called upon to play a political role. They were very active in the NATO membership of the countries of Central, Balkan, Eastern and Baltic Europe. The support of the Latvian president, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, for Nazi demonstrations or the entry of Nazi leaders into the Ukrainian government are therefore not inexplicable accidents of fate, but public manifestations of the secret networks that sometimes manage to rise to the top of governments.
At the end of the Second World War, it was obvious to all that it had been won by the Soviet Union (22 to 27 million dead) with the very relative help of the Anglo-Saxons (less than one million dead by the United States and the United Kingdom, including the colonies). First Secretary Joseph — who had eliminated the kulaks, then the Mensheviks in the Gulags — forged national reconciliation and Soviet national sentiment around the equality of all in the face of the hierarchical system of races of the Nazis (racism), the United States (segregation) and South Africa (apartheid).
The debates on the "totalitarianisms of the twentieth century" and the negationist resolutions of the European Parliament are aimed exclusively at destroying the image that Stalin left behind by amalgamating Nazi and Soviet crimes, which were very different in nature and at different times (the great period of the Gulags did not end in 1953 with the death of the "Little Father of the Peoples", but in 1941 with the agreement between Joseph Stalin and the Russian Orthodox Church to defend the country.
It is therefore not characteristic either of Stalinism or of the USSR.) It makes it possible to hide the recycling of the worst Nazi criminals by the CIA and MI6 in Third World states. It also masks the use of Nazis by the United States and the United Kingdom to extend their domination, with for example the British concentration camps in Kenya during the 1950s.
All these elements attest to the fact that, in order to establish their domination over the world, the United States and the United Kingdom have not hesitated to recycle yesterday’s enemies and ask them to continue their work, under their orders, with the same criminal methods.With this past in mind, the question arises as to the true role of NATO. The prevailing thought is that this alliance was formed to fight against the Soviets. But, besides the fact that the Soviets had just taken Berlin and defeated the Nazis, NATO never fought them, and today the Soviets no longer exist.
On the contrary, NATO has officially fought only two conventional wars, the first in Yugoslavia, the second in Libya. Its whole history has been to interfere in the internal life of its members in order to align them with Anglo-Saxon interests by means of coloured revolutions (May ’68 in France), political assassinations (Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro) and coups d’état (Greece of the colonels).
Under these conditions, one must ask oneself if all this hullabaloo about a possible war in Ukraine does not mask something else: a reinforcement of Washington’s and London’s control over their allies, even though these two powers are losing ground.One has to wonder why Russia, which on December 17, 2021, demanded that Nato be brought into line with the UN Charter, no longer raises this issue. Washington and London do not want to give up their position as overlords and the Allies their position as vassals. Dissolving NATO would make no sense, because each member still intends to play its role and not to gain independence and individual responsibility. If NATO were to disappear, a structure of identical form would succeed it.
The problem is therefore not the Atlantic Alliance, but the way in which the Anglo-Saxon leaders and their allies think.It is possible that this difference in thinking is not only cultural, but refers to the information revolution. Vertical conceptions, analyses in zones of influence, geopolitical theories belong to the industrial age, while multipolar decisions, individualized analyses and network theories are characteristic of the societies that are being built today. In this case, Moscow and Beijing are simply ahead of the West
I know it's not popular here but Yeshua/Jesus says it best, because he spoke in a way that was for future readers to see and hear. Boiled right down, concise and not lacking in substance.
Andrei Pivovarov, director of the NGO Open Russia, one of the satellite organizations of the galaxy linked to Soros, was arrested at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport a few days after the organization,founded by the former international crook oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, announced its dissolution.
It was Pivovarov's lawyer, Elena Borodina, who unveiled the arrest that took place yesterday at the Russian airport, where the director of the NGO linked to Soros was forced to get off the plane on which he had boarded and which was already ready to take off .
In recent days, the same Pivarov - after the entry into force of the law that prevents the candidacy in elections of anyone who has worked or supported organizations considered to be extremists and the increased penalties for those who collaborate with "undesirable" organizations - had announced “The cancellation of the membership of all members in Open Russia to avoid possible persecution”, despite the Kremlin having ensured that the closure of Open Russia is not the result of “a political purge“.
Already in 2017, the Attorney General had declared three organizations linked to billionaire George Soros and Open Russia as "undesirable": Otkrytaya Rossia, Open Russia Civic Movement and Institute of Modern Russia.
All associations that received foreign funding - therefore also those linked to Soros - and which, according to the accusations, have the aim of "instigating protests and destabilizing the internal political situation in Russia, threatening the constitutional bases and its security".
The model adopted by Soros, with billionaire loans given under the table to the intricate network of associations linked to his Open Society, - a model replicated endlessly - is to undermine states from within through a series of actions and strategies organized under a 'only direction, as in the case of the NGOs that go to look for illegal immigrants in front of the Libyan coasts and then overthrow them in Italy, putting the Italian economy in crisis.
On the other hand, it is Soros himself who, in 1992, brought Italy to its knees with a speculative maneuver that cost the lira a 30 percent devaluation and that forced the Bank of Italy to sell 48 billion dollars of its reserves. to withstand Soros' unscrupulous attack, just as it was with the British pound ... Which, four years ago, proudly claimed the gesture: “I consider it my success”.
The narrative that Xi is not creating an "open society" that Soros supports. The intent is the globalists need the CCP to save their butts. As LG indicated in a comment several weeks ago the globalist hierarchy is fracturing and losing control.
"Open society" is another neuro linguistic programming phase. Its context and meaning is being for "freedom and democracy". As noted psychopaths use ideology to manipulate programmed people. The intent is to destroy cultural and moral values and replace them with CRT and other neuro linguistic programming "values".
He is not a GOD , is simply the POWERFULL MAN in the WORLD, an Human, not a GOLEM
I agree.
Thus, the WEF "wet-dream" of One World Government can be crushed if China and Russia decide to stop it. That is why Soros has turned on Xi. Soros knows he cannot influence Putin, but thinks he can push out Xi and break the China / Russia partnership - thus saving the One World Government from a possible nightmare.
I had to recheck to ensure i wasn't in the 'dont panic lighten up' section