Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Asking what Xi wants is the wrong question because the appetite grows in the eating. Even if Xi just wants to dominate East and Southeast Asia right now, once China has gained that, their appetite will grow and they will want more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQfzDs7RzI
“He’s insisting on one-on-one talks with China’s leader, Xi Jinping — and this has stifled other diplomatic efforts to halt the worsening trade war between the two global powers.
The president won’t authorize White House delegates to engage with Chinese officials in Beijing about a detente, according to two former senior State Department officials and an industry official, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive ongoing discussions. The Senate has yet to confirm an ambassador to China; Trump has not appointed anyone else to lead talks with Beijing; and the White House isn’t reaching out to the Chinese embassy to begin discussions.
The absence of any substantial outreach has frozen meaningful communications between the two countries and threatened the likelihood of a near-term solution.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/19/trump-xi-china-trade-negotiations-00299645
The leader of China believe in Marxist-Leninist principles and sees capitalist and foreign capitalist countries as enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGq-A6Ap8oI
“You are Chinese and a characteristic of being Chinese is embracing the Chinese Communist Party.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1INaqj1Ik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuZee1M45Gg
China is militarizing the belt and road initiative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbBgr8rvs4
https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2023/1/1/23532942/xi-jinping-china-zero-covid-travel
“Lee’s tenure — and Xi’s support for it — mark a low point for civil rights and political freedom in Hong Kong. They also show Xi’s disdain for global human rights norms and a growing geopolitical divide between East and West, Lai said. “Xi Jinping’s vision is not to bring China in line” with those norms, he told Vox, but to assert dominance in places like Hong Kong and Taiwan, which threaten to provide alternative visions of political and social life. “Hong Kong seems to be the lesson.””