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Xi Jinping’s Face Assassination of Hu Jintao Is a Strategic Warning for America

Xi Jinping’s Face Assassination of Hu Jintao Is a Strategic Warning for America
Chinese leader Xi Jinping looks on as former leader Hu Jintao (R) gestures as he is helped to leave early from the closing session of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress at The Great Hall of People in Beijing, on Oct. 22, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao’s peculiar exit from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) congress meeting on Oct. 22 has ignited global discussion and intense speculation. And given current leader Xi Jinping’s war-waging aims, well it should.

Austin Bay
Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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