Video: China’s President Xi Jinping Secures Third Term – And Earns Western Criticism
PressTV's Spotlight – Interview with Peter Koenig and Haz Al-Din
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After closing on 22 October of the 20th Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Congress, President Xi Jinping was reappointed for a third 5-year term as China’s leader. This was expected.
Also expected was that he would reassemble the Politburo and his innermost circles with loyalists.
Every president and leader around the world does the same – staffing their cabinets and advisory teams with loyalists.
Just as a parenthesis, Madame Merkel was “elected” for four terms to the German Chancellor’s Office, for a total of 16 years (22 November 2005 – 8 December 2021). That was OK. No bad-mouthing.
But if China or Russia, does it, it’s called tightening the grip on power – what a double standard applied by western bought, yes, corrupted, media.
People ought to just think about it.
So, as also expected, western media could not just concentrate on the substance of the week-long conference and report on their substantive analysis. But they filled the airwaves and print-news with heavy critic on the “appearance” – without any comparison with their own western systems.
PressTV Iran dedicated their Monday evening (24 October) “Spotlight” Interview to the 20th CPC Congress, the key achievements and the western media reaction.
See this 23-min video recording of the interview.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.