{"id":67920,"date":"2021-02-01T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=67920"},"modified":"2021-02-01T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:46:20","slug":"atlantic-council-puts-out-anonymous-document-calling-for-overthrow-of-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/atlantic-council-puts-out-anonymous-document-calling-for-overthrow-of-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Council Puts Out Anonymous Document Calling for Overthrow of Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Atlantic Council went out front on Jan. 28 publishing a lengthy proposal to try to overthrow China\u2019s President Xi Jinping, linked to a policy document written by a \u201cformer senior government official with deep expertise and experience dealing with China.\u201d Frederick Kempe, head of the Council, wrote a Foreword to the document, and published an op-ed for\u00a0CNBC\u00a0<\/em>Jan. 30, highlighting it. The \u201cformer official,\u201d who Kempe says prefers to remain anonymous, calls for efforts to encourage a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat against the rule of President Xi Jinping in China. Called \u201cThe Longer Telegram<\/a>,\u201d the document refers to George Kennan\u2019s \u201cLong Telegram\u201d (also anonymous at the time) which called for a \u201ccontainment policy\u201d against the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cBiden Must Draw Red Lines Against China and Focus on Xi Jinping\u2019s Authoritarian Leadership<\/a>,\u201d for Politico<\/em> on Jan. 28, Anonymous describes the 85-page paper for the Atlantic Council, largely taken from the paper\u2019s Executive Summary: \u201cXi has demonstrated that he intends to project China\u2019s authoritarian system, coercive foreign policy, and military presence well beyond his country\u2019s own borders to the world at large,\u201d the author says. \u201cChina under Xi, unlike under Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao, is no longer a status quo power. It has become a revisionist power. For the United States, its allies, and the U.S.-led liberal international order, this represents a fundamental shift in the strategic environment. Ignoring this profound change courts peril. Xi is no longer just a problem for U.S. primacy. He now presents a serious problem for the whole of the democratic world….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe political reality is that the CCP is significantly divided on Xi\u2019s leadership and his vast ambitions. Senior party members have been greatly troubled by Xi\u2019s policy direction and angered by his endless demands for absolute loyalty. They fear for their own lives and the future livelihoods of their families. Of particular political toxicity in this mix are the reports unearthed by international media of the wealth amassed by Xi\u2019s family and members of his political inner circle, despite the vigor with which Xi has conducted the anti-corruption campaign. It is simply unsophisticated strategy to treat the entire Communist Party as a single target when such internal fault lines should be clear to the analyst\u2019s eye\u2014and in the intelligent policy maker\u2019s penning. A campaign to overthrow the party also ignores the fact that China, under all five of its post-Mao leaders prior to Xi, was able to work with the United States. Under them, China aimed to join the existing international order, not to remake it in China\u2019s own image. Now, however, the mission for U.S. China strategy should be to see China return to its pre-2013 path\u2014i.e., the pre-Xi strategic status quo….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven the reality that today\u2019s China is a state in which Xi has centralized nearly all decision-making power in his own hands, and used that power to substantially alter China\u2019s political, economic, and foreign-policy trajectory, U.S. strategy must remain laser focused on Xi, his inner circle, and the Chinese political context in which they rule. Changing their decision-making will require understanding, operating within, and changing their political and strategic paradigm….\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And again: \u201cThe overriding political objective should be to cause China\u2019s elite leadership to collectively conclude that it is in the country\u2019s best interests to continue to operate within the existing U.S.-led liberal international order rather than build a rival order, and that it is in the party\u2019s best interests, if it wishes to remain in power at home, not to attempt to expand China\u2019s borders or export its political model beyond China\u2019s shores. In other words, China can become a different type of global great power than that envisaged by Xi.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic Council went out front on Jan. 28 publishing a lengthy proposal to try to overthrow China\u2019s President Xi Jinping, linked to a policy document written by a \u201cformer senior government official with deep expertise and experience dealing with China.\u201d Frederick Kempe, head of the Council, wrote a Foreword to the document, and published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":67921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67931,"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67920\/revisions\/67931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillermeet.de\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}