Crisis in China

2012-11-08

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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Americans have lately been focused on a leadership contest in this country. But another, potentially equally consequential one has been going on half-a-world away. While ours involves the democratic election of a president to govern for four years, the one in Communist China has been engineered in secret and is supposed to last for an entire decade. Everything may not go according to plan in Beijing. Sluggish economic performance is intensifying op...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Americans have lately been focused on a leadership contest in this country. But another, potentially equally consequential one has been going on half-a-world away. While ours involves the democratic election of a president to govern for four years, the one in Communist China has been engineered in secret and is supposed to last for an entire decade.

Everything may not go according to plan in Beijing. Sluggish economic performance is intensifying opposition to a Communist Party elite rocked by scandal. And outgoing President, Hu Jintao warned yesterday that rampant corruption could “prove fatal to the party” and lead to the fall of the state.

The likely beneficiary of such a crisis in Chinese ruling circles will be the king-making military. That won’t be good for the people of China – or the United States.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

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