In A 2013 Speech, China's President Xi Says Western Countries Have Long-Term Economic And Military Superiority

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C), attends military ceremony in front of Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador, November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja

Business Insider/Reuters: China's Xi Jinping says Western countries have long-term economic and military superiority

* In a recently released 2013 speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned that developed countries in the West have long-term advantages over China.
* Xi acknowledged that China's Communist Party had made mistakes but said the party's history is "generally speaking glorious."

BEIJING (Reuters) - Developed Western nations have long-term economic, technological and military advantages over China, and the Communist Party has to realize that some people will use the West's strong points to criticize socialism's failings, President Xi Jinping said.

Since assuming power in China more than six years ago, Xi has ramped up efforts to ensure total party loyalty and discipline, including a sweeping crackdown on corruption, warning the party's very survival is at stake.

This year, which is marked by a series of sensitive anniversaries including three decades since the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square, has seen a further increase in calls for party loyalty.

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WNU Editor:  He is right that the West has long-term economic and military superiority. But he is wrong if he thinks socialism will be China's salvation.