Quotes About Xi

As the personal trajectories of Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi diverge, so too does the focus of their leadership. While Mr. Trump is obsessed with building walls, Mr. Xi is busy building bridges.

What we're trying to do is to look at the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Xi for who they really are.

John Terry is a fantastic centre-back - a centre-back that a lot of people would put in their all-time Premier League XI.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Given recent events in Hong Kong, it'd be political suicide for the KMT (Nationalist Party) in next month's elections for Ma to even be in the same room with Xi right now, let alone meet Xi one-on-one," says Sean King, senior vice president with consulting firm Park Strategies in New York and Taipei.

Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.

It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.

Xi's management of COVID is today the third rail in Chinese politics—which landed him in prison for eighteen years on charges of corruption.109 Another well-known blogger, former Caijing editor Luo Changping, was detained in October 2021 for a new crime—that of defaming political martyrs—after questioning China's role in the Korean War in a critical review of the box-office-hit film The Battle at Lake Changjin.110

Some Chinese intellectuals and entrepreneurs told me they were positively inclined toward Trump, intrigued with his profile as a brash businessman–TV star, and hoped he would put pressure on Xi to undertake the reforms they believed were overdue in China.

billion in 2017, the year of Xi's Davos debut—was far larger than Saudi Arabia's export of oil

We have to remember that Xi, head of a divided Communist Party, has no faction he can call his own. People often say he heads the "Princelings," but that term merely describes the "second Red generation" or "Red Nobility": the sons and daughters of either former leaders or current serving high officials.

If Xi personally accepts Maoism, we should not be surprised he believes his Maoist campaign is popular across Chinese society. "Today's Chinese leadership—under pressure from rising expectations, social dislocation, and popular discontent—again finds itself trying to bridge a credibility gap with the Chinese public," write Evan Feigenbaum and Damien Ma in Foreign Affairs.

It is beyond doubt that Xi and Li understand, and even acknowledge, that reform is no longer a choice but a necessity,

For Xi, the Communist Party is paramount and central, the defining organizing principle for China's rise, and its discipline and control are essential.

Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.

The family is more sacred than the state.