Ipse by Tag - Xi Jinping

William Burns

Inserted 2 years ago

“While the partnership between Russia and China has strengthened since 2019, [Chinese] President Xi Jinping and the Chinese leadership are a little bit unsettled by what they're seeing in Ukraine. China did not anticipate the difficulties that the Russians were going to run into in Ukraine, and is concerned by the reputational damage coming from its close association with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Beijing is also worried about the conflict's effects on the global economy, coming at a time when China's annual growth has slowed, as well as the way it has driven Europeans and Americans closer together. Despite these concerns, I would not underestimate President Xi and the Chinese leadership's determination with regard to Taiwan, although the conflict might change the Chinese calculus on the issue.”

Taipeitimes

CIA Director

08 Mar 2022 6 5

Keqiang Li

Inserted 2 years ago

“Chinese President Xi Jinping thought as it pertains to the strengthening of the military and realize the centennial goals for the founding of the armed forces. Military capabilities must be enhanced in every aspect and risks in every sector and region be managed comprehensively so that the strategic capability to defend national sovereignty, security and interests is improved.”

Taipeitimes

Premier of the People's Republic of China

05 Mar 2022 6 3

David Gitter

Inserted 2 years ago

“One has to wonder if Putin directly or indirectly let Xi Jinping know this was coming during their recent meeting. It is not inconceivable that Xi committed China to materially spoiling Western attempts to censure and sanction Russia while still allowing itself the flexibility to pay lip service to UN Charter ideas like sovereignty and the equality of nations in pursuit of its other objectives.”

Aljazeera

President of the Center for Advanced China Research

23 Feb 2022 4 2

Bonnie Glaser

Inserted 2 years ago

“China has always prized sovereignty in its foreign policy; it does not want to be associated with Moscow's action. The costs of doing so, in terms of relations with the US and Europe, and its global reputation, are too high. Yet, it has an important relationship with Russia that it doesn't want to damage. I see this as a major foreign policy challenge for Xi Jinping.”

Aljazeera

Director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States

23 Feb 2022 4 2

Yinhong Shi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Although China and Russia have moved beyond marriage of convenience to a quasi-alliance, relations between the giant neighbours are far from a formal alliance requiring one to send troops should the other face threats... With the international world so polarised, it's possible the United States and the West would be unified in isolating or sanctioning China together with Russia. An invasion would also show that China's repeated calls for all sides including Russia to resolve the Ukraine crisis peacefully have fallen upon Putin's deaf ears, raising doubts about its effectiveness as an interlocutor.”

Reuters

International relations expert from Renmin University in Beijing

19 Feb 2022 10 5

Bruce Wolpe

Inserted 2 years ago

“If Putin succeeds, and endures the sanctions and can tolerate the Ukrainian people's uprising, and enjoys a resurgence of pride and glory across Mother Russia, [Chinese President Xi Jinping] may want to copy that playbook for Taiwan. And sooner rather than later.”

Taipeitimes

Visiting Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

14 Feb 2022 7 3

John Tefft

Inserted 2 years ago

“Many of the analysts felt that President Putin would not launch anything during the Olympics to upstage his friend, President Xi of China. But if you end up with a lot of extra Russian forces on the border with Belarus.… Well, ask any Georgian whether they remember what happened in Georgia in 2008. Russian troops participated in exercises in the North Caucasus that year and many of those troops did not go home after the exercise and were among those who invaded Georgia. And there was Olympics in China back then, as well. There's a lot of parallels here that make you wonder.”

Rferl

Former U.S. ambassador to Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia

31 Jan 2022 10 2

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 2 years ago

“Putin may not be planning for a total invasion and occupation of Ukraine; not with merely one hundred thousand troops. But even a minor incursion into eastern Ukraine is bound to trigger a dangerous cycle of actions and reactions, with the US imposing massive and unprecedented sanctions against Russia, aimed at crippling its economy. That's why Putin is seeking the support of China's strongman, Xi Jinping, whom he's scheduled to meet next week on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics. With China on its side, Russia hopes it could resist US sanctions and successfully rebuff Western pressures.”

Aljazeera

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

27 Jan 2022 8 2

Charles Dunst

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's undeniable that China's image is in a poor state and looks unlikely to improve substantially any time soon. Countries around the world are worried most about Beijing's willingness to wield economic ties for political purposes. It's hard to see China reversing this trend in 2022, given both [Xi Jinping's] clear preference for foreign policy aggressiveness and popular Chinese nationalism.”

Rferl

Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

01 Jan 2022 3 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 years ago

“A new model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based among other things on such principles as not interfering in internal affairs [of each other], respect for each other's interests, determination to turn the shared border into a belt of eternal peace and good neighbourliness. As agreed, we will hold talks and then take part in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games.”

Aljazeera

President of Russia

15 Dec 2021 5 2

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 2 years ago

“President Xi Jinping will have a virtual summit with President Putin on December 15, Beijing time. The two heads of state will take stock of the bilateral relations and cooperation outcomes over this year, make top-level design for the relations next year, and exchange views on major international and regional issues of common concern. We expect and believe that this video conference will further enhance our high-level mutual trust, vigorously promote China-Russia close strategic coordination and the robust development of all-round practical cooperation. This will provide more stability and positive energy for the complex and fluid international landscape.”

Fmprc

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

13 Dec 2021 4 2

Paul Nantulya

Inserted 2 years ago

“China has been signalling strongly that it wants to shift towards a private sector-to-private sector financing model. China's policy banks have grown increasingly concerned about borrowers' ability to repay loans and grown wary about extending finance. These lenders not only have an obvious financial interest in recovering their money, but they are also part of the Communist Party political architecture in China. Should non-performing loans and defaults continue to increase, Xi [Xi Jinping] could face political consequences at a time when he is consolidating control amid the global pandemic.”

Scmp

Research associate at the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies at Washington’s National Defence University

11 Dec 2021 4 5

Soo Kim

Inserted 2 years ago

“Will a summit with Xi help the Moon government build a sustainable foreign policy platform vis-a-vis several foreign policy issues - the alliance with the U.S., dealing with the North Korea challenge, and Seoul's alignment between Washington and Beijing? It's unclear. There seem to be more pitfalls associated with this decision. It renders uncertainties in the U.S.-ROK alliance even more apparent and it may stir the pot in tensions between Washington and Beijing. The long-term costs far outweigh the very short-term political gains associated with Seoul's conduct.”

Koreatimes

Former CIA analyst now with the Rand Corp

07 Dec 2021 6 2

Shinzo Abe

Inserted 2 years ago

“A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-US alliance. People in Beijing, [Chinese] President Xi Jinping in particular, should never have a misunderstanding in recognizing this. A stronger Taiwan, a thriving Taiwan, and a Taiwan that guarantees freedom and human rights are also in Japan's interests. Of course, this is also in the interest of the whole world. A military action targeting Taiwan would also lead to 'economic suicide' for China, despite it being one of the world's top economies, and significantly affect the global economy given China's close economic and trade ties with the rest of the world.”

Taipeitimes

Former Prime Minister of Japan

01 Dec 2021 8 4

Lee Seong-hyon

Inserted 2 years ago

“For Xi Jinping, the summit was about bolstering his international credentials ahead of his unprecedented third term next year. For Joe Biden, it was about managing voter sentiment ahead of next year's mid-term elections and allying American allies' fears of increasing international disorder. In other words, they needed to take a breather from what Biden called 'extreme competition' to attend to their respective needs, while having an opportunity to size up the other side through the summit.”

Koreatimes

Visiting scholar at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

23 Nov 2021 5 2

Gautam Chikermane

Inserted 2 years ago

“Under the Chairman of Everything in China, Xi Jinping, the country has told the world that it has economic power and will weaponise it to smother everything, from using democracy and its institutional fractures to rewriting maps for conquest to extending its surveillance state architecture to the rest of the world. It is time for the EU to end its extramarital affairs with authoritarianism, and grandstanding and war-mongering screeches. That China is a threat to democracies, in general, and the EU, in particular, is visible to all but the EU. Other than geography, the essence of the EU is values. And one event after another, one country at a time, the EU is giving them up.”

Orfonline

Vice President at Observer Research Foundation

22 Nov 2021 5 2

Andrew Hammond

Inserted 2 years ago

“Amidst all these challenges, a key question that Xi [Xi Jinping] will be pondering is how long Biden will be in power. For while the Chinese president is tightening his grip with a third term, it is not certain that his U.S. counterpart will even seek a second one, by which time he will be in his early 80s. This is a non-trivial point as Xi would be more likely to engage, substantively, with Biden if he knows the latter will be in power for eight rather four years. Both may ultimately favor a strategic dialogue to try to find a framework, or 'grand bargain,' to renew bilateral relations, but this is the type of initiative that may require more than a single U.S. presidential term to formulate.”

Koreatimes

Associate at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics and Political Science

18 Nov 2021 5 1

Zhongping Song

Inserted 2 years ago

“The attempt of the US congressional advisory body to encourage and support the Taiwan secessionist authority militarily would likely ruin US President Joe Biden's promise to China about no conflict, as this is an act of 'playing with fire' and just as what Xi [Xi Jinping] warned at the virtual summit, 'Whoever plays with fire will get burned'.”

Globaltimes

Chinese mainland military expert and TV commentator

18 Nov 2021 5 2

J Michael Cole

Inserted 2 years ago

“Current trends in the US, with more focused security 'guarantees' to Taiwan (if implicit), are a major impediment to China succeeding in convincing Taiwan that it has no choice but to capitulate. Xi [Xi Jinping] will therefore seek signals [from Biden] which can be exploited for such propaganda efforts; whether Biden will give him that is very much in question. I doubt that he will.”

Aljazeera

Taipei-based senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Canada

15 Nov 2021 5 4

Daniel Russel

Inserted 2 years ago

“Both Biden and Xi are worried by the risk of a military incident escalating. Biden knows that the tools for prevention and crisis management are rusty, so we should expect him to push to put in place safeguards or 'guardrails' to reduce risk. The Sept. 9 call between the presidents began with Xi listing complaints, but ended with a constructive agreement for officials to continue discussions. This suggests that the personal relationship Biden built with Xi a decade ago is still strong, and that each conversation can add some stability to the mix.”

Taipeitimes

Former US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific

13 Nov 2021 5 2

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“If Putin succeeds, and endures the sanctions and can tolerate the Ukrainian people's uprising, and enjoys a resurgence of pride and glory across Mother Russia, [Chinese President Xi Jinping] may want to copy that playbook for Taiwan. And sooner rather than later.”

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