A recently leaked directive details the Chinese Communist Party's strategy to respond to Trump's tariffs.

The purpose of this internal directive is tell the whole party system that it's time to end the dominant of the United States.

In Chinese, they call the Weiji. Weiji is crisis and opportunity.

So any crisis will be considered an opportunity.

How is the CCP trying to leverage this moment?

Will this be the end of China as the quote-unquote factory of the world?

Those businesses based on the exports are all closing now. And what's behind the purges in the military, the apparent removal of two Xi Jinping loyalists,

and recent changes in top CCP leadership?

Why did two top Chinese Communist Party officials recently swap positions?

Joining me today is longtime China analyst, Heng He.

This swap is very strange because in Chinese CCP's history never happened.

Either you will purge or you're retired.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yan Yek.

Hung He, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Thank you for having me.

The Chinese Communist Party recently issued a secret internal directive in response to these broad tariffs that the U.S. administration has put on China and of course other countries,

but with China as a focus.

So what was the most important thing that was leaked?

I think the strategy is the purpose of this internal directive is tell the whole party system that it's time to end the dominant of the United States since World War II.

On three fields, economic, military, and international political.

So this is huge.

Because I have never heard they openly talk about this. Of course, this is huge. Because I have never heard they openly talk about this.

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