Xi Reminds the Chinese People That Their Fealty Is to the CCP Amid Russia-Ukraine War

Chinese reflections on European unrest

A giant screen shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping attending the opening session of China's rubber-stamp legislature (the National People's Congress) at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China, on March 5, 2022. Tingshu Wang/Reuters

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While the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to expand and grow more unpredictable, Beijing has taken the opportunity to reaffirm the one true guiding consideration in all of its policy stances, foreign or domestic: the primacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the necessary fealty that is subsequently demanded of its people.