News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is partial to the number three for cultural and superstitious reasons. As it turns out, that would appear to apply to Xi Jinping, too, as noted in part one of this three-part series. A few of his “campaign of threes” have included: Three major economic initiatives. The historic third resolution at the sixth plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the CCP. A campaign for a rare third five-year term as communist leader. An effort to be elevated to the personal status of “third paramount leader” with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. But Xi’s most grandiose leveraging of the number three has been the initiation and/or furtherance of the three threes of warfare against the United States (and, by extension, the rest of the world) in a dramatic departure from the relatively peaceful policies of Deng and his successors. Xi’s three threes of warfare are …