He tweets: "It is time
for us to end the leadership contest
and get a prime minister in place ASAP. By the time I returned in 1998 the whole country had taken to heart Deng's invocation "to get rich is glorious". That year the Communist Party decreed China's state-owned housing stock be sold off, lock, stock
and barrel. Swathes of Beijing's historic grey-brick courtyards were being demolished
and replaced
with glass
and steel. So his ruinous legacy was covered up
with reverence. And now, Xi loses no opportunity to channel Mao, even usur
ping his defunct titles - Great Helmsman, People's Leader, Chairman. But what he seeks is much bigger.
irannews.ru “Most of the developing world in Asia and Africa, including the Middle East, has not viewed the Ukraine war as the kind of definitive, transformational moment in international relations that the West does,” Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf
States
Institute in Washington, wrote this month.
Their tutor told the BBC she had been looking for a "fun way" to ensure "integrity and honesty" in her classes. As the war in Ukraine enters its ninth month, some analysts believe the Saudis will likely remain defiant of Western pressure to align against Moscow.
They say that, for the leadership in Riyadh, maintaining relatively neutrality serves Saudi interests and the kingdom is using this war – and its reaction to it – to send a message to the US that Saudi Arabia is not Washington’s vassal state. He says the party needs a "unity ticket" in wake of the economic situation, and that there's no point spending another four to five days voting for a leader. In 2017, at the beginning of his second term, Xi declared: "China has stood up, grown rich, become strong and is moving towards the centre stage." He tweets: "It is time for us to end the leadership contest and get a prime minister in place ASAP.
