5 Year Communist Party Congress

       The 5-Year Show is winding down in Beijing. 2500 delegates are getting a little tired of the hoopla surrounding dictator-for-life Xi Jin Ping. The architect of China's present and future has consolidated his hold on this country of 1.3 billion citizens. Despite the zero Covid policy, the population somehow continues to exist. With sudden and widespread lockdowns, large swaths of the country are ordered to stay home during outbreaks of the Covid virus. These fractious orders from Beijing's central command post, impose harsh conditions on everyone affected. People can't go to work, can't shop, and must depend on the government for their immediate survival. It's not pretty, and it appears the populace is starting to crack under the pressure. Just this past weekend a banner denouncing XiJP was hung over a freeway and showed up on social media, for a short while. It didn't take too long for the banner to be scrubbed from all outlets.

       Additionally, China seems to rattle the West Pacific realm with intimations of a move against Taiwan, which, like the pseudo-Communist nut case in the Kremlin, lets the world know where China wants to be sometime soon. It won't be long before China starts to move against its neighbor to the north, the Russyan Bear. As the climate warms, more arable land appears ready for planting near and north of the Amur River valley in Russya's vast eastern Siberian provinces. Now already home to 5  million Chinese farmers, this area will eventually be claimed as ancestral Chinese property expropriated by some long-dead czar or Communist dictator. It will pass to China without much fuss.

       As the 2500 delegates start packing their overnight bags, Xi JP will return to Tianamen  Square where his house-bound Yes-Men will offer sincere congratulations for a job well done. NYT pundit, Bret Stephens, wrote a letter to Xi in today's paper, thanking him for his role in making it obvious why the world still looks to the West for guidance, and the rest avoid any thought of teaming up with Communists or pseudo-Communists(Russyans).