The People’s Republic of China has not healed and recovered from the wounds inflicted on it by the COVID-19 Pandemic and its lockdowns. Adding fuel to the fire, the real estate sector is creating problems and making the overall situation in the country despicable.
The policies faced by the Chinese President Xi Jinping have left the country with very less friends and allies, and the President Himself is facing flak and fire both from within his country as well as abroad., the Washington Post reported.
Problems faced by China
The Chinese economy has gained the speed of that of a tortoise and is giving a hard time to its residents along with Xi himself. The population of the country is shrinking rapidly and ageing, which is questing gits workforce. At the same time, the youth of the Chinese nation is facing the scourge of unemployment and has reached to the extent that the government is hiding data and suspending its publishment.
In 2008, China allowed Xi Jinping to become the head of the country, and he was leading the nation into the path of becoming an increasingly powerful economic engine, but this has been reversed, and the overall picture shows a different picture altogether. One that can be seen in the macroeconomic data as well as the waning optimism of a younger generation that knew only about a boom era.
China has also not recovered from the injuries that it sustained during the draconian pandemic. Xi’s tightening and authoritarian grip over all the facets of the daily life of the Chinese is making the situation all the more difficult and deteriorating.
Impact of Xi’s Policy on China
The government policy of total control has placed the country on slow growth and created multiple facets of dissatisfaction, wrote Ian Johnson, a senior fellow at the Council of Friendly Relations (CFR) and a long-time expert on China.
The Chinese Policy is also impacting its ties with other foreign nations. Recently, the visit of Gina Raimondo visited China and warned that the prevailing uncertainty stoked by the tough actions taken by China and its government regarding foreign businesses is making China uninvestable in the eyes of US investors.
China needs to recognise that they can no longer rely on the sheer mass of the market to attract that type of foreign investment, the Washington Post reported while quoting Naomi Wilson, the vice president of Policy Asia and global trade of the Information Technology Industry Council. “Even among Chinese companies, there have been efforts to relocate outside China,” she added.
A recent survey of global public opinion found largely negative views of Chinese influence in International affairs, including in some middle-income countries outside the West. In Asia, the US has bolstered a web of alliances and partnerships with Chinese neighbours, and the bonds are being directly strengthened largely by the aggressive behaviour of China.
Chinese officials have resent the implication that their state rather than what they see the overweening US hegemon represents a threat to stability and order. But Beijing cannot help itself, the Washington Post said.
Other Causes of Criticism
Xi Jinping and China are also heavily criticised due to gross human rights violations in Xinjiang Province, the largest province of China located close to Central Asian nations. The Chinese are oppressing the native Chinese Muslims of the region.
The community is known to the international order as the Uyghur Muslims. The Chinese have committed large-scale genocides against them and are forcing them to abandon their culture and religious practices. They have employed a new tactic of altering the demography of the province by sending more and more Han Chinese people into western China.
Many nations have become aware of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the debt traps associated with it, with perfect and classic examples of Sri Lanka and African nations before them, Recently, Italy had strongly refused the BRI initiative of China completely.
