Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China November 27, 2019. Florence Lo, Reuters
Reuters: Exclusive: Internal Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
BEIJING (Reuters) - An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation, people familiar with the paper told Reuters.
The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping, concluded that global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the sources said.
As a result, Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic and needs to be prepared in a worst-case scenario for armed confrontation between the two global powers, according to people familiar with the report’s content, who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter.
The report was drawn up by the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a think tank affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, China’s top intelligence body.
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WNU Editor: If the above Reuters report is accurate, the Chinese are leaking this intelligence report to send a message to the U.S. to "back-off". This is very disappointing. The tells me that the Chinese government is still in denial on the incredible damage that they have inflicted on the world with how they handled (and still handling) this pandemic. Their actions have caused enormous harm and suffering to the U.S. and its European allies, and threatening the U.S. is only going to make any hope of reconciliation impossible. In fact. You can count on the U.S. responding.
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