Chinese President Xi Jinping faces a “closed window of opportunity” to achieve his geopolitical goals, author and China expert Gordon Chang told The Story on Thursday.
“He [Xi] realizes that he has an economy problem, “explained Chang to presenter Martha MacCallum.” But more importantly, he has a demographic problem.
“China is now more than four times more populous than the United States,” continued Chang. “At the end of this century, it will probably be less populous than the United States. This is the most dramatic collapse of demographics in history, without war or disease. And if Beijing does not achieve its goals in the next, say five years, it has no hope of reaching us. and overtake us. “
Despite the challenges Beijing faces, Chang emphasized that “China is our main opponent and countries like Russia, Iran, North Korea, they can only challenge the international system because China gives them strength”.
“This is a problem for China,” he continued. “It is not an issue of Iran or Russia. It is basically an issue centered on Beijing, because China is extremely hostile to the United States, inherently hostile in the nature of this regime.”
However, President Biden is clinging to what Chang described as the “decades ago” view that “the United States can get along with China, which in fact is in our interest in helping the Communist Party grow stronger” .
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“Biden has a vision that is simply not consistent with what China is doing today,” continued the author. “They are committing atrocities and it has not really penetrated the president.”
The United States, Chang added, “can’t really have a collaborative relationship with a country that has declared a quote, ‘People’s War’ against us, and that’s China. They did that in May 2019. For now, it looks like well, it just doesn’t work in practice. “