Xi Calls on China’s Top National Security Officials to Prepare for ‘Worst Case Scenarios’

• Xi Calls on China’s Top National Security Officials to Prepare for ‘Worst Case Scenarios’
  by Alex Wu, https://www.theepochtimes.com/
  Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on May 30 told his top national security officials to be ready for “worst case scenarios” and “stormy seas”. Xi was addressing officials attending the first National Security Commission meeting since the CCP’s 20th National Congress last year, according to state-run Xinhua. As commission chairman, Xi  said they must deeply understand “the complexity and difficulty of the national security issues we now face have increased significantly.”
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  Xi called on CCP officials to carry forward the “spirit of struggle” and “must adhere to bottom-line thinking and worst-case-scenario thinking, and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves, and even perilous, stormy seas.”
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  Xi’s use of “bottom-line thinking and worst-case-scenario thinking” has drawn the outside world’s attention. Wang He, China affairs commentator and The Epoch Times columnist, wrote: “This may be the first time in a top political meeting of the CCP that the two terms are used together. The combination of these two terms shows that the tone of the National Security Commission meeting is really combative.
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