2023-11-15 07:17:52
Chinese President Xi Jinping on August 12, 2023 in Xi’an. FLORENCE LO/REUTERS
DECRYPTION – A decade after his accession to power, the “Chinese dream” of prosperity and rebirth promised by the “great navigator” is struggling to materialize. On the contrary, economic, demographic and geopolitical clouds are gathering.
Xi Jinping is emptying the communist apparatus, as well as in the bookstores. The reissue of a book on the fall of the last emperor of the Ming dynasty has mysteriously disappeared from the shelves in China, while the president is faced with growing economic and geopolitical difficulties, in a climate weighed down by purges, in the middle of iron with America.
The work Chongzhen, the diligent emperor who led the country to ruin has vanished from the catalogs, despite its release scheduled for September 1st. “Sorry, this product is not available », displays the JD.com site, in tune with other brands. On Weibo messaging, the search engine is running empty.
The Chinese, however, are well aware of the tragic fate of Chongzhen (1627-1644), a sovereign weakened by the jacqueries before being overwhelmed by the Manchu hordes, and who ended up hanging himself from a tree on the “coal hill”, at the gates of the Forbidden City. The mistakes of the 17th and last Ming emperor…
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