Commentary
An analyst from Hong Kong just sent me a visual image and message. It is a front cover picture, depicting Xi Jinping in a Chinese emperor gown from a few years back. It was actually the front cover portrait of the Economist magazine. The reason why this analyst sent this satirical picture to me, has to do with the 20th CCP National Congress in China which takes place in mid-October, and whether Xi, as the current leader of China, can rule the most populated country on earth for the third term—or “forever.”
This hard-working analyst once told me, that if Xi remains in power for the third term, a lot of people in Hong Kong and China will have to take more “immediate decisions”—staying and living under fear, or leaving for the love of freedom….