The Chinese cartel - AKA the CCP

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If you've ever read anything of Medellin cartel, you'd recognise the spirit reincarnations of the malevolent figure of Pablo Escobar and his co-conspirators, who once entertained the notion of taking control of the Colombian state, in the current Chinese leadership.

It's all there. The overtly undisputed (but covertly tenuous) leadership of the mob boss. The murderous and treacherous factions within the cartel. The disappearing of people hostile or challenging to the cartel. The coercion (not so much on Escobar's terms: 'plata o plomo', but rather the even more sinister 'raise left hand, lose left hand; raise right hand, lose right hand'). The shadowy figures, who are nameless to the world, but play a significant role in enforcing their patron's rule.

All this went unnoticed, or blithely ignored, by a world hungry for get-rich-quick projects that exploited the vast Chinese market of cheap (read slave) labour and the unparalleled size of its consumer market.

Then came 2020 and the pandemic, which put the Chinese cartel on a collision course with the world.

The massive overreaction to Australia's asking for an open and independent inquiry into the origins of the pandemic should have been enough to indicate what the cartel was prepared to do in the first instance (if the coercion of the WHO wasn't enough).

And in case anyone is still in doubt, the people surrounding Xi Jinping above Tiananmen Square on the 100th party are his faction supporters - the shadowy figures. These extras have no official titles, but they are the true owners of China - a bloodline and aligned Xi-faction reps of the cartel.

The display was a mega-version of what it would look like if Pablo Escobar was president of Colombia and hosting an anniversary celebration at the presidential palace in Bogota surrounded by Medellin cartel members.

But Xi Jinping, himself, is fighting an internecine battle within the cartel, the outcome of which, is life or death for him.

Were he to be overthrown, there will be no escape from the victors within the cartel. It's almost certain no country would accept him as a political exile, so he would either be summarily executed or subjected to a Stalinist show trial which would end in his execution.

His daughter is apparently safely outside of China but any talk of her or her whereabouts is an offence within mainland China.

His wife lives separately from him (apparently within China) but would also not likely survive Xi's overthrow.

Xi, himself, has not left China in nearly 2 years and rarely even leaves Beijing.

In short, Xi Jinping, is standing on the hill he will either die on at the hands of the cartel, or where he will take his own life in the event of a catastrophic war, were the outcomes of which to go against China.

The die is cast... It's now only a matter of when the first move in a kinetic war is made, and by whom