A few miles from Mongolia’s giant Tavan Tolgoi mine, about 2,000 trucks a day set off across the Gobi desert, delivering coal to China on a road so narrow and ridden with pot holes it has become an accident black spot.
The CCP is not equipped to deal with high pressure. The 21st century is an era of globalization, and increasing democratization is the latest worldwide trend. The global village promises consensus and peaceful settlement of dispute is the human consensus. This trend is like a mighty river that authoritarian regimes are powerless to resist. Xi Jinping should recognize this fact and cast off past thinking to embrace global unity. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development for more.