As Chinese leader Xi Jinping seeks to secure an unprecedented third term in power at this fall’s 20th National Party Congress, his opponents within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be leveraging the country’s internal troubles to undermine him, according to former diplomat and author Roger Garside.
“There are tipping points … looming up in the Chinese scene of the very gravest kind,” he said, adding that these would allow rivals within the leadership to move against Xi.
Garside, the author of the book “China Coup”, said that the Chinese leader is facing a combination of external and internal pressures….