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THREAD: Beijing published a new book this week with some of Xi’s internal remarks. Some are older from his older speeches but recently de-classified, all on the topic of risks and contingencies. I’ll tweet some of the more interesting passages here.
During an internal speech on China’s domestic security in 2014, Xi named the US as “leading the West’s efforts” to westernise and split China. The efforts are intensifying because the balance of power was shifting in China’s favor, he said.
In a speech on education from 2019, Xi argued that the purpose of education is to train successors for socialism. If education ends up producing people who are ungrateful and even gravediggers of China’s system, it will be “a failure of the education system”, he said.
Also, the first official confirmation that Xi had this: “Never allow eating the Communist Party’s food and then smashing the Communist Party’s cooking pots.”
In a speech from 2015, Xi warned that a population boom in cities may bring along higher risks of social unrest. A yr ago, Li promised in his annual gov rpt that China will facilitate 100M ppl to move to cities.
