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China’s Communist Party congress has been meeting, and a reader from China sent links to the following :

China’s Xi lays out vision for ‘new era’ led by ‘still stronger’ Communist Party

Opening a critical Communist Party congress, Xi pledged to build a “modern socialist country” for a “new era” that will be proudly Chinese and steadfastly ruled by the party but open to the world.

Although his wide-ranging address made clear there were no plans for political reform, Xi said China’s development had entered a “new era”, using the phrase 36 times in a speech that ran nearly 3-1/2 hours.

“With decades of hard work, socialism with Chinese characteristics has crossed the threshold into a new era,” Xi said. …

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said it welcomed commitments to open wider the door and treat all companies equally, but said European companies operating in China continued to suffer from “promise fatigue”.

“The only cure for this is promise implementation,” it said in a statement.

In what was probably an indirect reference to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy, Xi promised that China would be fully engaged with the world, and reiterated pledges to tackle climate change. Trump this year opted to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate pact. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-congress/chinas-xi-lays-out-vision-for-new-era-led-by-still-stronger-communist-party-idUSKBN1CM35L

With tears and song, China welcomes Xi as great, wise leader

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese officials on Thursday heaped praise on President Xi Jinping’s political ideology, unveiled a day earlier at a key Communist Party Congress, a sign that it could be enshrined in the party’s constitution and further cement his power.

Some ruling Communist Party officials were moved on Thursday to song, dance and tears in adulation of Xi, a day after he opened the twice-a-decade conclave pledging to build a prosperous “modern socialist country” for a “new era”.

Three outgoing members of the elite seven-man Politburo Standing Committee that Xi heads lauded “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

Such statements indicate that Xi could cement his power with his new eponymous slogan being incorporated into the party’s constitution. Whether the theory is included bearing his name will be a key measure of his status, analysts have said.

No other leader has had an eponymous ideology included in the document while in office since Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China.

Xi is poised to begin a second five-year term next week. …

Some party officials painted Xi as a saviour.

“Because of the Party Central Committee with comrade Xi Jinping as its core, in five years, the party has been saved, the army has been saved, the country has been saved,” Liu Shiyu, head of China’s securities regulator, said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-congress/with-tears-and-song-china-welcomes-xi-as-great-wise-leader-idUSKBN1CO0AV

The UK press reported the following about some of this:

20 October 2017

Three days of incessant fawning have reinforced the sensation that the world’s second-largest economy is now ruled by one of its most influential, and perhaps enduring, leaders since Mao Zedong; a reality that will have ramifications far beyond China’s borders.

Donald Trump, who is scheduled to visit China early next month, might fail to retake the White House in three years’ time – or even make it that far. But there is a growing sense that his Chinese counterpart is in it for the long haul and could remain in power well beyond the end of his second five-year term.

“Many people are worried the Xi Jinping era will not end [in 2022],” said Jerry Cohen, a veteran China scholar at New York University, who suspects Xi will find ways of retaining power “sort of like the Putin arrangement in Russia”. “So this could go on for some time.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/xi-jinping-china-president-leninist-quest-authority-control-carries-dangers

Essentially, China has a popular leader, he is expected to outlast Donald Trump, and China hopes to increase its economic and military clout around the world while continuing to promote its version of state controlled socialism.

While many support Xi Jinping, a plot against him was reported today by the BBC (see Top Chinese officials ‘plotted to overthrow Xi Jinping’). So, there are various issues in China.

Because of its economic growth over the past several decades, many think that China will be the dominant force of the world.

Although the Bible says that force will actually be European (Revelation 13, 17; Daniel 9:26-27, 11:21-44; see also Europa, the Beast, and Revelation), China is most certainly gaining influence in various places. Consider the following related to Africa and then something related to Singapore:

Who’s ‘Winning’ In Africa?

October 20, 2017

General Waldhauser considers that “Just as the US pursues strategic interests in Africa, international competitors, including China and Russia, are doing the same. Whether with trade, natural resource exploitation, or weapons sales, we continue to see international competitors engage with African partners in a manner contrary to the international norms of transparency and good governance. These competitors weaken our African partners’ ability to govern and will ultimately hinder Africa’s long-term stability and economic growth, and they will also undermine and diminish US influence — a message we must continue to share with our partners.”

But the US doesn’t have any genuine partners in Africa. On the other hand, China has created many. As noted by Forbes, “In December 2015, President Xi Jinping ushered in a new era of ‘real win-win cooperation’ between China and Africa. This strategy aims to create mutual prosperity, allowing investors to ‘do good while doing right.’ China has backed this proposal up with a commitment of $60 billion of new investment in major capital projects, which are tied to developing local economic capacity. This level of commitment contrasts starkly with the action, or lack thereof from the West.”

The message is clear. The US military-industrial complex has overtaken and indeed supplanted State Department diplomacy in Africa, as elsewhere in the world, and is intent on escalating its military presence while China is quietly winning friends and influencing people by engaging in massive, well-planned economic projects. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-20/whos-winning-africa

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong shed light on the balance between the U.S. and China in a changing geopolitical landscape.

“Well, it’s never easy to be a small country next to a big neighbor,” Lee said.

“If you have one big neighbor only, that’s not easy to manage. If you have two big neighbors, well in some ways you have more friends, but in other ways you have to make more difficult choices,” Lee added.

Singapore’s relationship with the two global giants, he said, also “depends on how the U.S. relationship with China develops,” he said.

“If there are tensions between America and China, we will be asked to pick a side. It may not be directly, but you will get the message that: ‘We would like you to be with us, and are you with us? If not, does that mean you’re against us?’ And that’s to put it gently,” he added.

Singapore however, does not wish to “pick sides,” he said.

Lee spoke with CNBC ahead of his visit to the U.S. where he is set to meet President Donald Trump at the White House on Oct. 23.

U.S. and Singapore have had economic, military and diplomatic ties since 1966 — a year after the city-state’s independence. … China and Singapore, meanwhile, established official relations in 1990 …

Late last year, military vehicles belonging to Singapore were impounded in China’s Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong en route from Taiwan where they were used in military training. The issue has since been resolved.

The relationship between Beijing and Singapore is now seen to be warming up again after Lee made a trip to the Chinese capital in September this year. During that visit, he met with President Xi and Premier Li Keqiang.

Lee told CNBC on Thursday that the relationship between China and Singapore is now “good” and that the two countries are “forward-looking.” 10/19/17 https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/china%20sides%20us/china%20sides%20us?hl=en&ned=us

Africa is surely not tied to the USA. While Singapore has been considered a staunch US ally, notice that it is concluding that it does not want to have to choose between the USA and China.

According to biblical prophecies, militarily, Singapore will stop being allied with the USA (cf. Lamentations 1:2), but is expected to be allied with China (cf. Revelation 9:13-17) on the way to Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-16).

Donald Trump will not prevent this.

As far as Armageddon goes, China’s one-child policy is positioning it to support the coming 200 million man army of Revelation 9:13-17. Consider something else that is also in the news:

As odd as it sounds, China’s economic policy is being held hostage by its heavily skewed sex ratio.

China’s excess of young, unmarriageable males poses an acute dilemma for President Xi Jinping and other leaders as they set the country’s path for the next five years during the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress, which opened on Oct. 18.

After years of heavy spending and investment to boost growth and employment, China is at risk of economic stagnation if it doesn’t restructure the economy. Yet there is peril that doing so will lead to dangerous levels of unrest among the millions of unmarried men—known as “bare branches”—who will be laid off from shuttered unneeded steel, coal and auto factories. …

Chinese leaders responded to the 2008 global financial crisis by channeling massive investments into infrastructure and heavy industry to sustain economic growth and prevent political unrest. …

China’s leaders fear the consequences of high unemployment among “bare branches,” a term used in China for young, low-status men who, because they are typically unmarriageable, represent endpoints on the family tree.

Growth of the ‘bare branches’

Bare branches are a result of one of the most skewed sex ratios in the world.

China has 106.3 males for every 100 females, compared with a global ratio of 101.8 to 100. In coming years, the workforce imbalance will only worsen because there are 117 boys under age 15 for every 100 girls. …

Researchers Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer established that societies with large and growing numbers of bare branches are at risk of rising crime and civil unrest. https://qz.com/1106637/chinas-skewed-sex-ratio-makes-president-xis-job-a-lot-harder/

Yes, China will have problems. It has been spending massively on infrastructure projects– a well known international one seems to be paving the roads to Armageddon (watch Is China paving roads to Armageddon?), China will also end up providing a lot of manpower for the coming 200 million man army of Revelation 9:13-17.

More on China can be found in the latest posted sermonette video by Jay Chiang: China in 2017.

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 20th, 2017 at 7:00 am and is filed under Prophecy.

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