{"id":597706,"date":"2023-11-14T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-china-uses-summits-to-advance-its-real-agenda\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:00:00","slug":"how-china-uses-summits-to-advance-its-real-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-china-uses-summits-to-advance-its-real-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"#How China uses summits to advance its real agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/AP22038502221724-e1698257522969.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party have long harbored a peculiar passion for summits.\u00a0Often labeled \u201cstrategic dialogues\u201d\u00a0between China and its major adversaries, these meetings are rarely meant to solve any specific issues. More often, the CCP uses them as platforms to salvage its domestic credibility, to promote its global vision \u2014 and to hoodwink other world leaders into accepting Beijing\u2019s narratives and policy frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s much-hyped meeting between Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden \u2014 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco \u2014 is no exception.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Xi is not the first Chinese leader to use international gatherings to lend legitimacy to his beleaguered regime at home. Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution ravaged China and degraded his legitimacy to rule in the eyes of many Chinese people. President Richard Nixon\u2019s epic 1972 Beijing summit lent the murderous Mao credibility and helped restore legitimacy among his oppressed subjects. The domestic significance of the leader of the free world making a pilgrimage to see the Great Chairman was enormous, and was spun by Mao to augment his domestic authority. Similar strategic dialogues between discredited Chinese leaders and the U.S. president in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre helped the CCP regain political legitimacy and credibility at home.<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping, like many of his predecessors, also faces a credibility crisis on the home front. His ruinous Covid controls and inept fiscal policies have brought China\u2019s economy to the brink of a meltdown. Disenchantment among the Chinese people with Xi\u2019s reckless and ruthless dictatorship is almost tangible.<\/p>\n<p>Thus it is easy to see why Xi would so eagerly seek a summit with the current leader of the free world \u2014 to alleviate his paranoia over the mounting domestic anger directed at his dictatorship. He seeks to send the message to his caged people \u2014 aided by the CCP\u2019s relentless propaganda machine \u2014 that their supreme leader is respected, even revered, on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s San Franscico rendezvous could also allow him to promote his own domestic image as a global guarantor of stability. Unlike Mao and Deng Xiaoping, who ruled when China was less advanced economically, militarily, and technologically, Xi has promoted himself as a world leader, positioning him as the global head of a\u00a0\u201ccommunity of common destiny for all mankind.\u201d He no doubt views an international forum such as the APEC Summit as a golden opportunity for the CCP\u2019s self-promotion. It is in this light that his Foreign Ministry\u2019s spokesman, Wang Wenbin, has sought to elevate this week\u2019s meeting to colossal levels of significance, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/wjdt_674879\/fyrbt_674889\/202311\/t20231110_11178338.shtml\">telling<\/a> the international press last Friday that the summit would be\u00a0\u201cof strategic, all-dimensional, and direction-redefining importance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet as much as Xi wishes to use the APEC summit to bolster his own domestic standing, he also wishes to demoralize America\u2019s major allies in the Indo-Pacific. U.S. treaty allies such as the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, as well as India, Vietnam and Taiwan, are harassed and intimidated by the CCP\u2019s modernized military on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. By hobnobbing in San Franscico with the president of the United States, the only nation capable of seriously countering Chinese aggression, Xi aims to belittle America\u2019s allies and degrade their will to resist.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of this week\u2019s summit is also carefully planned to reinforce the CCP strategy of\u00a0\u201cUsing Confrontation to Promote Cooperation.\u201d This strategy hinges on the Leninist paranoia that Washington conspires to destroy China through a two-pronged <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach of \u201cengagement plus containment.\u201d China\u2019s recent deliberate and provocative confrontations with the U.S. \u2014 harassing U.S. aircraft and Navy vessels in the South China Sea and the ongoing military intimidation campaigns against Taiwan, to name just two \u2014 are designed to induce anxiety in Washington to extract key strategic concessions from the confrontation-averse White House.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Xi knows that his American counterpart has long sought the establishment of a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beijing%E2%80%93Washington_hotline\">military-to-military hotline<\/a> to avoid strategic miscalculation. Indeed, this summer, President Biden rushed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing to address this very issue. Xi sees this as a point of vulnerability waiting to be exploited.<\/p>\n<p>Xi knows how much history the current administration has forgotten: all past military hotlines with Beijing have proven futile. In the 1999 Belgrade embassy bombing crisis and the 2001 incident involving a collision between a U.S. EP-3 aircraft and a Chinese interceptor jet, military leaders in Beijing simply refused to answer the phone calls from Washington. Even if Xi Jinping agrees to set up a hotline in San Franscico, the chances that his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>s would answer it in times of crisis are most likely to be zero.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The list of serious issues between the U.S. and China is long and comprehensive \u2014 yet all these issues have already been repeatedly discussed for years. The CCP simply does not have the willingness to seriously engage, let alone change. Instead, the Party uses high profile forums like this week\u2019s APEC Summit in San Franscisco to bolster its image.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>American leaders are accustomed to engaging China only at the transactional level, where they seek specific and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te results. But CCP leaders deal with their adversaries on a doctrinal and strategic level, evincing little care for concrete actions.<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping is coming to this week\u2019s summit not to discuss specific issues, but to advance his global vision in accordance with the policies of the Chinese Communist Party. Washington should see China\u2019s approach for what it is. Instead of allowing Xi to use yet another summit to promote the CCP\u2019s agenda, the Biden administration should approach this week\u2019s gathering with an understanding of how Xi aims to use it, and with realistic expectations about America\u2019s ability to change China\u2019s authoritarian regime.<\/p>\n<p><em>Miles Yu is a Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center at Hudson Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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