XI RECREATING 1930S EUROPE, THIS TIME IN ASIA

In the praxis of Xi Jinping Thought, he is the sun of the solar system represented by the CCP. The party is itself the sun in the solar system of national life in the PRC, while the geopolitical focus of Xi is to make the country he leads the sun around w

Students of contemporary history are aware that the strategy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) designed to surmount the obstacle posed by the Himalayan range to the expansion of Peoples Republic of China (PRC) primacy over the Indian subcontinent was put in practice from the mid1950s, after Chairman Mao Zedong sufficiently expanded the land area of the PRC through the incorporation of Aksai Chin, Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. As early as 1961, CCP strategists were, for example, working to detach Nepal from the Indian sphere of influence and affix it to China’s. Soon afterwards came similar efforts in Sri Lanka, while in the case of Pakistan, the relationship solidified into an anti-india, militarycentric front by 1965, the year of the brief military conflict between Pakistan and India. Of course, India has never been the primary target of the CCP leadership. That has continued from 1949 onwards to be the United States, although from around 1965 until the defeat of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in Afghanistan in 1988 at the hands of an irregular force buttressed by GCC and US funds and the fighters provided courtesy of GHQ Rawalpindi. From that time onwards, the focus in internal planning returned to the cherished goal of displacing Washington with Beijing as the centre-point of global authority. Successive leaders of the CCP concealed