China proposes to let Xi Jinping extend presidency beyond 2023

[88m3]

NPR
3 hrs ·
The eye-roll response to a softball question was a rare moment of spontaneity, a natural human reaction to a mechanized pageant of autocracy.


NPR.ORG

The Eye Roll That Upstaged Xi Jinping
At China's parliament session, Xi was given permission to rule indefinitely. But when a journalist rolled her eyes at another reporter's question, her expression was caught on camera and went viral.

 

[V-2]

But when Xi became Emperor, Trump was firing his top diplomat on Twitter.

EOS: China Catching Up To United States In R&D

“The U.S. is still the largest supporter of science and technology, but China is coming on fast, and they are making big commitments to the future,” NSB chair Maria Zuber told Eos. In addition to developing these indicators, NSB governs the National Science Foundation (NSF) and advises the president and Congress on science and engineering policy, research, and education issues.

“It’s not to say the sky is falling, because the sky isn’t falling. But one also doesn’t want to be asleep at the wheel. There is room for lots of countries to get involved, and it’s good for everybody. But, of course, the U.S. wants to maintain its leadership role.”

“We are involved in a global race for new knowledge,” NSF director France Córdova said at an 18 January briefing about the report. The United States “may be an innovation leader today, but other countries are rapidly gaining ground. It is not inconceivable that we may be overtaken in time. Our investment in basic research must remain a national priority.”

No Kidding.

A certain someone in the PRC with a chemical engineering background walked through the door five years ago yesterday and launched a blizzard of institutional changes including reform of the S&T funding and evaluation systems, shifting priorities towards fundamental/applied research and instigating policies to encourage investment in them, raising the budgets for R&D overheads, cutting bureaucratic red tape to give scientists more freedom and incentivization efforts for foreign talent to come abroad.

China has the largest and most productive research organization on the globe in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (top agency executive Bai Chunli has Caltech/JPL affiliation) and the country's scientific culture has shifted from a predominant focus on late-stage development to one of original discovery and innovation. They have made serious advancements in quantum cryptography for example (link), which has wide-ranging implications for the future of military defense tech and cyber security.

 

[V-2]

The Five Most Important Moves In Xi's Big China Cabinet Shake Up

China’s sweeping government restructuring plan gives President Xi Jinping more direct control over the levers of money and power by consolidating, creating or eliminating dozens of agencies.

The plan presented to the National People’s Congress on Tuesday leaves 26 cabinet-level ministries tasked with regulating industries and initiatives at the heart of Xi’s policy agenda. Their duties range from curbing risk in the country’s $43 trillion banking and insurance sectors to overseeing aid programs for the president’s Belt and Road trade-and-infrastructure initiative.

“In the past it wasn’t clear who had ultimate responsibility, with issue areas split between different ministries,” said Yi Kwan Chu, a director in the China practice at the Washington-based Albright Stonebridge Group consulting firm. “There were too many cooks in the kitchen, creating chaos."

That was quick.

 

[morris]

Xi Jinping prepares to extend his reign at 20th Party Congress - Times of India

China News: HONG KONG: Next month, chairman Xi Jinping will extend his term in power for another five years, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conducts .

timesofindia.indiatimes.com