China’s Xi Jinping Takes Rare Direct Aim at U.S. in Speech
And every single move he has been making in the past 2 years have been about making China resilient from western comprehensive attacks. In this NPC, China will be making changes to reorganize the State Council to be just an executive body that only executes but does not make policy, and decision making on many aspects will be moved to the party organs. His whole focus on strengthening party control is about reducing power struggles and enforcing unity so that when huge challenges continue to come from western sanctions and decoupling moves, Chinese state is cohesive and united enough to face them.
His moves to increase control over the tech sector, focusing state power towards improving self-reliance and hardware innovations is also preparing for more US restrictions.
But the big question is, will his moves be implemented fast enough to actually make China resilient. If US attacks keep accelerating then Chinese decoupling from western components and western markets will increase very fast. If China cannot cope with those attacks then its overall development pace could slow down.
