#StateThinking: The CCP, the Chinese people and the downturn. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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#StateThinking: The CCP, the Chinese people and the downturn. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-01/asia-s-factories-searching-for-catalyst-with-china-on-sidelines?srnd=premium-asia&sref=5g4GmFHo
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| 0:42.0 | Merry Kissle, Executive Vice President Stevenson, Corporated Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary |
| 0:47.7 | of State. And long time in Hong Kong observing the People's Republic of China's miraculous rise |
| 0:55.2 | for the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, the miraculous part is gone. The rise is gone. |
| 1:01.8 | What we have now is a China that is non-transparent and the word paranoid applies. We have a headline |
| 1:10.0 | in the Financial Times. China oustopped generals from nuclear rocket force. Question mark, |
| 1:17.4 | purge comes amid wider crackdown on People's Liberation Army to ensure loyalty. |
| 1:23.1 | Merry a very good evening to you. We've watched Xi Jinping make threats across the landscape |
| 1:29.2 | to his neighbors, to the United States, to Europe, to anyone who comes into his purview. |
| 1:34.9 | And then he turns out in the charm puzzling about why the investment is not pouring into |
| 1:40.0 | China the way it used to during the miracle years that would have ended about 2012. |
| 1:46.5 | However, the puzzle here is the loyalty of the People's Liberation Army. |
| 1:51.2 | Is that in doubt? Is that your experience that the army that the party depends upon? |
| 1:57.0 | They can't turn their back. Good evening to you. Good evening to you, John. Well, you just hit |
| 2:02.4 | upon the key fact about the People's Liberation Army, which is that the party depends on it, |
| 2:08.6 | because the PLA is not akin to a Western military force that has civilian leadership and whose |
| 2:15.9 | purpose is to protect the citizens of said country. The purpose of the PLA is to protect the party |
| 2:22.9 | and to ensure the party's dominance over its citizenry. And that is why loyalty is paramount |
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