Chinese Communist Party Leads at Davos, Pushes 'The Great Reset'
China's Xi Jinping takes charge in President Trump's absence at World Economic Forum
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As the World Economic Forum got underway in Davos, Switzerland this week, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping took charge of the event in President Donald Trump's absence.
The all-virtual forum was the first annual Davos event since Joe Biden was sworn into office last week.
Appearing emboldened with Trump no longer in the White House, President Xi warned Biden and other world leaders against starting a "new Cold War" with China and other nations.
While pitching for "The Great Reset" and urging other nations to return to "mutual respond," Xi emphasized that Beijing is ready to forge its own path regardless.
On the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Xi underscored that nations must "abandon ideological prejudice" and immediately reject a dangerous "Cold-War mentality."
He called on world powers to "stay committed to international law and international rules instead of staying committed to supremacy."
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"Difference in itself is no cause for alarm; what does bring alarm is arrogance, prejudice, and hatred,” Xi told the Davos Agenda event, according to Zero Hedge.
His comments follow four years of the Trump administration's anti-China policies, which brought Sino-US relations to their lowest point in decades.
"Confrontation will lead us to a dead end."
It should be noted that there's previously little doubt that Davos attendees pretty much despised Trump, and now this year, Xi of China's Communist Party is opening the Davos agenda.
“To build small circles and start a new Cold War, to reject, threaten, or intimate others, to willfully impose decoupling, supply disruptions, or sanctions, or to create isolation or estrangement, will only push the world into division and even confrontation,” he said.
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Recall this is similar language to his “warnings” of rising anti-globalization and protectionism during his prior 2017 Davos speech, where he said:
“Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room.
"While wind and rain may be kept outside, that dark room will also block light and air.
"No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war.”
Except now the world has been ravaged by the continuing slow burn of the global pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China last year—making the Davos Agenda 2021 a dubiously hoped-for "great reset" year, as Rabobank quips sarcastically:
"Today kicks off the annual World Economic Forum, which this time round is online and so can’t charge anyone $43 for a hotdog.
"Expect various iterations along the theme of 'Builders’ Bums Better' from the talking heads as the ‘Great Reset’ slash ‘Great Reflation’ is dangled before markets."
Xi's main points:
— Stuart Lau (@StuartKLau) January 25, 2021
- World should abandon ideological biases, co-exist in peace and stop interfering in others' domestic affairs
- Sanctions and new cold wars only push the world towards confrontation
- Vows support for WHO, WTO and Paris climate accord pic.twitter.com/JmDPOXsdZk
“We’re going through the worst recession since the end of World War II,” Xi said
"For the first time in history economies of all regions have been hit hard at the same time…"
“Despite the trillions of dollars in relief packages worldwide, global recovery is rather shaky and the outlook remains uncertain…
"Macroeconomic policy support should be stepped up to bring the world economy out of the woods as early as possible,” the Chinese president added.
Chinese diplomats along with Western pundits alike have been optimistically touting the “great reset” to be laid out at the World Economic Forum this year…
The 51st #WEF plays as the “Great Reset”, aiming at recovering world economy from #COVID19 pandemic and getting global growth back on track. Looking forward to President Xi and President Ramaphosa’s speeches. https://t.co/63zzOGtkc2
— AmbCHENXiaodong (@AmbCHENXiaodong) January 25, 2021
