CCP Again Touts ‘Rising East’ Propaganda to Cover up the Declining Economy

(R-L) White House Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other Trump Administration officials sit down with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (5th L), Central Bank Governor Yi Gang (6th L) and other Chinese vice ministers and senior officials for negotiations in the Diplomatic Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Jan. 30, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

News Analysis

A Communist mouthpiece again touted Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping’s old slogan, “The East is Rising, the West is declining,” against the backdrop of China grappling with sluggish consumption and the real estate bubble bursting. China affairs commentators collectively agreed that it is propaganda to serve the domestic populace and the countries under its Belt and Road Initiative.