Washington Free Beacon senior editor Bill Gertz said on Friday that under Chinese president Xi Jinping, the communist state has become a “communist nightmare.”
Gertz appeared on The Mark Levin Show to promote his new book, Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy, in which he describes how the “China threat” has transformed radically since the 1980s.
“It really took a turn for the worse under the regime of Xi Jinping, the current Chinese leader, who has advanced what he calls the China Dream, which is really a communist nightmare,” Gertz said. “He has his eyes set on global hegemony, he wants China to be the dominant superpower in the world, and in order to do that, he has to diminish the power of the United States.”
Gertz added that although Xi’s family was purged by Chinese authorities prior to his taking office in 2013, the move only hardened him as a radical communist. Upon ascending to the control of the state, Gertz said, Xi has moved into Mao Zedong’s residence, which had been a museum since the dictator’s death.
“Xi Jinping has become the new Mao, the new emperor,” Gertz said.
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