Xi Jinping Thought : Core Ideology

"Whether it's exams for Chinese, chemistry or politics, it has to cite quotes from the 'boss' to promote core ideology."

"They've enhanced patriotic education -- ideas such as attacking Taiwan, or anti-U.S. and pro-Russia messages with a clear slant."

"Students have become very anti-American as a result."

Anonymous Chinese schoolteacher

 

"The danger for Xi Jinping is that he ends up with officials who are less disposed to tell him the bad news [when he selects only loyalists to the Poliboro]."

"[By any accounting he suffers from] bad emperor syndrome."'

Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister 

"China makes its own rules because it's so big; when you are that big you get to [do that]."

U.K.-based Dimon Liu, exiled human rights activist

China's President Xi Jinping (L) walks with members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, as they meet the media in the Great Hall of the People. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

 

It's official, Xi Jinping is emperor for life, no small thing in a country with a 1.4 billion population base. A country that portrays itself as powerfully entitled to land, sea and air in areas in contention with its neighbours, and a leader who believes the East and South China Seas are China's else why would they be named for China? A leader determined to coerce or dynamically force Taiwan to reenter the warm fold of China's possessive embrace. Above all, a country entitled to absorb Tibet and to persecute by 'training' the subversives who are Muslim within China.

Obviously most Han Chinese must think of Mr. Xi as their emperor since his likenesses are to be viewed in every government office, productive enterprise, private home, public space, and that includes Buddhist temples and Christian churches. Billboards across the country reflect his visage. His personal philosophy -- Xi Jinping Thought -- is extolled in red propaganda banners erected in towns and villages across the country. In Uyghur detention camps inmates must wish Xi a long life before they are permitted to eat.

A decade of Xi rule has created a new world within China, where power has been consolidated by isolating political rivals, locking dissidents away, and enacting unprecedented new rules and regulations into immutable law; his doctrine now enshrined in the constitution. Xi succeeded by carefully crafting the belief that he is the essential core of everything China and Chinese. His recently enacted coronation for a third unprecedented term has made history.

At the recently concluded convention where no other conceivable candidate to contest Xi for the presidency appeared, he was confirmed in his entitlement to remain China's guide and mentor emperor of historical distinction where he selected solely loyalists for the seven-member Politboro Standing Committee that will unquestioningly bow to his will.

Still from Video: 'High drama' as Xi's predecessor led out of the meeting

During the closing ceremony when the purpose of the convention had concluded, Xi sat stone-faced as his immediate predecessor was 'escorted' from the stage, confused and confounded. Had he failed to whisper his congratulations to his permanent successor? Xi will brook no rivalries, not the merest appearance of anyone else with pretensions to greatness; not the influential, the wealthy, his potential rival/critics. 

Status will not protect anyone even those of power, influence and riches from suddenly disappearing from the world stage. Express a silent dissent and the walls close in becoming prison cells. Like tycoon Ren Zhiqiang or tech entrepreneur extraordinaire Jack Ma. Critical to the future of China, children six and up are required to study their president's doctrine at school.

 

Beijing's dictates on COVID-19 extermination are irreversible; it will be conquered thanks to Xi's immutable zeor-COVID dictate, complete with snap lockdowns, mandatory testing and contact tracing. China's homegrown vaccines only allowed; no more-effective Western COVID vaccines permitted into the country; reliance only upon the far less-effective home product. COVID lockdowns as  efficient a rehearsal tool in complete population control as any for Mr. Xi.

Protest groups suddenly discovered their contact tracing codes had turned red, confining them to their homes, barring them from public areas. The tracing codes transformed into a tool to restrict freedom of movement, punishing dissenters for their effrontery in questioning the wisdom of President Xi. Under the guise of public health; no need to physically place anyone in prison.

 

At 69, Xi has has surpassed the informal retirement age of 68 and could be in a position for life-long rule | Kevin Frayer/Getty Images