Will Xi Jinping Attack America to Prevent His Political Demise? by Gordon G. Chang

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21749/xi-jinping-political-demise-attack

“Xi is obviously in some sort of trouble. The smoke keeps pouring out.” — Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Prague-based Sinopsis think tank, former Canadian diplomat, to Gatestone Institute, July 2025.

The world is at great risk… if Xi is now engaged in no-holds-barred fighting for his political life. In this case — the most probable in my view — he might feel he has every reason to stop at nothing to save himself.

It is apparent that Chinese agents are now in place in America. Toward the end of the Biden administration, U.S. Border Patrol officers noticed packs of military-aged Chinese males coming from Mexico, all outfitted in identical kit. Border Patrol apparently knew that some pack members had links to the Chinese military. In addition, Border Patrol suspects that China’s military was orchestrating the infiltration.

Why would Xi Jinping order an attack? Perhaps to show other Communist Party figures that he has the strength to take on the United States — or to create a crisis during which no one would dare to depose him.

Rumors say mighty Xi Jinping will lose his Communist Party and Chinese state posts in the next few months. There is, however, also a large group of China watchers and academics who say that little or nothing is out of place and Xi is fine.

Whatever the truth, the U.S. and other countries need to prepare for the regime to lash out without warning. Xi may now have reason to take the world by surprise.

There are clear signs that Xi has lost control of the People’s Liberation Army, the most important faction in the Communist Party of China. A series of articles, beginning on July 9 of last year, in PLA Daily, the military’s main propaganda organ, praised “collective leadership,” a clear criticism of Xi’s one-man style of rule. At the same time, many of Xi’s loyalists were removed from their posts.