2023-07-17 12:11:01
INTERVIEW – The political scientist analyzes President Xi Jinping’s diplomatic activism both with Russia and in the Middle East to better resist the West.
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He is one of the only intellectuals who still dare to speak in Xi Jinping’s China. This fifty-year-old former professor at the prestigious Tsinghua University, laid off for having gone to Hong Kong to study the democratic demonstrations, analyzes for Le Figaro the strengths and weaknesses of the regime, as well as its international strategy, from Ukraine to Taiwan.
LE FIGARO. – How do you describe the political system of the Xi Jinping era?
Wu Qiang. – “I am the state!” Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2013 ended the era of reform and opening up, which began in 1992 under Deng Xiao Ping. At the time, there was still breathing space for civil society, but that is no longer the case today. From now on, the Party wants to control everything. Xi’s obsession is to prevent a “color revolution” in China and, for this, he has changed the very nature of the Party, in order to control all the levers of power. One party, one leader: this is the message from the 20
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