Forwarded from Pepe Escobar
This was extremely embarassing - to say the least: former President Hu Jintao removed from the Great Hall of the People, and leaving an empty seat to the left of Xi Jinping, at the close of the 20th Party Congress.
NO ONE really knows the reason: kind of a state secret. Speculation in the Chinese net is at fever pitch.
It could be merely a health issue, considering how frail Hu really is.
Or it could be a graphic image promoting the shock of the new, the CPC version: Hu is now out of the Politburo, and so is his protege, Prime Minister Li Keqiang, whose two terms have ended.
Tomorrow is the Big Day. The new 205 members of the Central Committee have already been announced. They will elect the new Politburo Standing Committee - the Magnificent 7 that REALLY rule: Team Xi for the next 5 yeas.
NO ONE really knows the reason: kind of a state secret. Speculation in the Chinese net is at fever pitch.
It could be merely a health issue, considering how frail Hu really is.
Or it could be a graphic image promoting the shock of the new, the CPC version: Hu is now out of the Politburo, and so is his protege, Prime Minister Li Keqiang, whose two terms have ended.
Tomorrow is the Big Day. The new 205 members of the Central Committee have already been announced. They will elect the new Politburo Standing Committee - the Magnificent 7 that REALLY rule: Team Xi for the next 5 yeas.
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MORE WAR
From one of my Beltway sources:
"The desperation of the neo-liberals, who are going to lose the elections in November: they are escalating and doubling down in their quest for MORE war so as to hide their Covid crimes and the failure of their sodomite LGBTQ policies meant to destroy society. Ukraine is the only card they still have in their hand."
On the EU:
"The EU governments fear that they will be overthrown unless there is a distraction. I do not see that there will be any compromise [on war] by the Straussians, who are enjoying this."
From one of my Beltway sources:
"The desperation of the neo-liberals, who are going to lose the elections in November: they are escalating and doubling down in their quest for MORE war so as to hide their Covid crimes and the failure of their sodomite LGBTQ policies meant to destroy society. Ukraine is the only card they still have in their hand."
On the EU:
"The EU governments fear that they will be overthrown unless there is a distraction. I do not see that there will be any compromise [on war] by the Straussians, who are enjoying this."