Originally Posted by
etudiant
Agree with the above.
Xi is not stupid and has serious problems at home, including an imploding real estate sector (30% of GNP), unprecedented unemployment among the youngest, best educated recent graduates and a failed Covid policy, whose costs mount daily.. Getting his third term confirmed with these headwinds is hard enough, but confirmation while engaged in a war that causes China's customers to gag is a non starter, at least imho.
Not to mention bank problems in Henan.