Kevin Rudd has a “booklet” in the May 2018 “Foreign Affairs”,
“How Xi Jingpig Views the World”, with a tagline “The Core Interests that Shape
China’s Behavior” (paywall)
All of this follows Jingping’s crowning himself president
and leader of the party for life.
Trump has vacillated, sometimes in the past saying “China is
not your friend” and imposing tariffs, and yet sometimes admiring Xi Jingping
as a “strong man”. Xi Jingping is undoubtedly
important in controlling North Korea.
The most important of the seven pillars is that Xingping
wants to make Communist Party ideology the driver of China’s future, and not
economic reform for its own sake, or statecraft (or the deep state or
administrative state, for that matter, an end in itself). This ultimately
winnows down to “rightsizing” individual people for the sake of overall social
stability, and that is where the planned “social credit score” by 2020 fits in.
Apparently in school kids have to
memorize the ideology.
However, the peripheral areas, some of which are legally
part of China and not sovereign (Tibet), and others which are (Taiwan, with is
anti-Communist, and North Korea, which is hyper-communist) are also a major
issue.
So is balancing environmental concerns with growth.
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