Over informal, private meals with American leaders, China\u2019s Xi Jinping let his guard down a little. It was a decade ago, relations were less strained, and Mr. Xi, still cementing his power, hinted he worried about the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s grip.<\/p>\n
Speaking privately with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Mr. Xi suggested that China was a target of \u201ccolor revolutions,\u201d a phrase the party adopted from Russia for popular unrest in the name of democracy and blamed on the West. The recent \u201cArab Spring\u201d uprisings across the Middle East had reinforced his concerns that China was vulnerable to public anger over corruption and inequality, both of which the country had in abundance.<\/p>\n
\u201cXi couldn\u2019t have been more forthright that China is beset by malevolent forces and internally prey to centrifugal forces,\u201d said\u00a0Daniel R. Russel<\/a>, a former senior American diplomat who accompanied Mr. Biden to China in 2011.<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Xi Jinping sees threats everywhere that foreign forces can exploit against China. He has expanded the nation's very meaning of "national security," bolstering his party's control on all fronts, and enlisted the whole nation to resist. https:\/\/t.co\/KqyJDdcPIJ<\/a><\/p>\n — The New York Times (@nytimes) August 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n