◎ The CCP would want a Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis to both intimidate Taiwan and boost nationalistic sentiments at home.
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◎ America is confronting a multidimensional and existential challenge from Communist China and must respond not only with economic, military and other national security means, but also on the ideological level.
◎ Xi needs a ‘victory’ over COVID-19 in order to dampen economic crisis and handle political infighting.
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◎ Things are happening on a range of contentious issues in the U.S.-China relationship.
◎ The CCP is now aggressively distracting, “brainwashing,” and “strong-arming” the Chinese people and the world into “forgetting” that it caused the coronavirus pandemic, to instead show “gratitude” to the PRC for “saving” them.
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◎ The CCP likely does not believe that propaganda and disinformation will be enough to “maintain stability” once economic activity on the mainland is fully revived.
◎ An immediate China-centric crisis should not distract the international community from other dangerous situations created by Beijing’s communist government.
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◎ The following analysis was first published in the Feb. 27 edition of our subscriber-only SinoWeekly Plus newsletter. Subscribe to SinoInsider to view past analyzes in our newsletter archive.
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