Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vision of a new world order after 2050 in which China will become the world’s unassailable economic and cultural leader.

Burton writes:

When the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress ended on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping emerged, as planned, with a steely new grip on power.

Having been enshrined in the Party Constitution as the sole legitimate interpreter of Chinese Marxism for the “new era,” Xi’s political authority in China is now absolute. Now he can concentrate on the rest of the world.

Held every five years, a recurring theme of this year’s Congress was China’s historical resentment against, and future redress of, the West. Communist officials chafe at China’s humiliating defeat by the British in the Opium War of 1840, and subsequent Western and Japanese imperialistic incursions. China’s past characterization as “the sick man of Asia” was cited many times during the Congress.

But now Xi has assumed “the mandate of history” to implement the “magnificent plan” realizing the “Chinese dream of glorious Chinese national restoration” by 2050. Proceeding from 2020, this plan is divided into two 15-year parts. By 2035, China will be fully developed and technologically advanced. It will then embark on taking its rightful place as the world’s unassailable economic and cultural leader, playing “an important role in the history of humanity.”

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