Chinese dictator Xi Jinping opened this year’s Communist Party Congress on Sunday with a two-hour speech in which he threatened violence towards Taiwan, insisting “all measures necessary” are on the table to annex the neighboring country.
He also focused on compelling listeners to “further work in developing a socialist ideology that has the power to unite and inspire the people,” avoiding the specifics of running the country.
Unlike Xi’s typical threats, the dictator added a caveat that he was not trying to terrify Taiwanese civilians. In contrast to his remarks on Sunday, during the 2017 Communist Party Congress, Xi declared that China was ready to “take center stage” in the world and threatened any nation that recognized Taiwan’s sovereignty, not just Taiwan itself.
Xi’s abusive rhetoric peaked in 2019, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic that the Chinese government created through mismanagement in the city of Wuhan. During a visit to Nepal, Xi
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