{"id":47506,"date":"2017-10-27T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T16:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47506"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:10","slug":"burton-as-xi-sets-his-sights-on-the-world-the-ruse-is-dispensed-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/10\/burton-as-xi-sets-his-sights-on-the-world-the-ruse-is-dispensed-with\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: As Xi sets his sights on the world, the ruse is dispensed with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/10\/26\/as-xi-sets-his-sights-on-the-world-the-ruse-is-dispensed-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s vision of a new world order after 2050 in which China will become the world&#8217;s unassailable economic and cultural leader.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>When the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s 19th Congress ended on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping emerged, as planned, with a steely new grip on power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Having been enshrined in the Party Constitution as the sole legitimate interpreter of Chinese Marxism for the \u201cnew era,\u201d Xi\u2019s political authority in China is now absolute. Now he can concentrate on the rest of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Held every five years, a recurring theme of this year\u2019s Congress was China\u2019s historical resentment against, and future redress of, the West. Communist officials chafe at China\u2019s humiliating defeat by the British in the Opium War of 1840, and subsequent Western and Japanese imperialistic incursions. China\u2019s past characterization as \u201cthe sick man of Asia\u201d was cited many times during the Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But now Xi has assumed \u201cthe mandate of history\u201d to implement the \u201cmagnificent plan\u201d realizing the \u201cChinese dream of glorious Chinese national restoration\u201d 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\u2019s unassailable economic and cultural leader, playing \u201can important role in the history of humanity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/10\/26\/as-xi-sets-his-sights-on-the-world-the-ruse-is-dispensed-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation\u00a0about\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s vision of a new world order after 2050 in which China will become the world&#8217;s unassailable economic and cultural leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[4008,3892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47508,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47506\/revisions\/47508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}