This Is The Place Where Chinese Leaders Go To Plot Strategy On How To Dominate The World

Chinese President Xi Jinping, front center, and other Chinese leaders attend the opening meeting on Thursday of the third session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. PHOTO: XINHUA

Brendon Hong, Daily Beast: The Secretive Beach Retreat Where China Leaders Plot World Domination

Welcome to the beach resort where the Chinese Communist Party’s major players convene each year to set the country’s geopolitical and domestic agendas.

HONG KONG — Have you ever wondered how China’s stone-faced, dead-eyed leaders set their policies? How much debate takes place, who is involved, and whether it ever gets heated? Do the nation’s economic, scientific, and creative experts get to bend their ears, at least to some degree?

These are questions that have plagued Sinophiles and China-watchers for decades. The decision-making and operational mechanics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are a black box, but it is known that the CCP has its summer retreats at Beidaihe, a seaside locale in Hebei Province that is 180 miles from the nation’s capital. There, at the beach, they set policy goals each year.

WNU Editor: This private retreat is actually not a big secret. I have known about it for years, and it has become more of a social gathering place for top Chinese politicians and businessmen (and now businesswomen) to network and do business. And while political and international strategy is discussed .... economics is the number one issue that dominates these gatherings.