by Shane Trejo, Big League Politics:
On May 30, 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping said to his top national security officials to be prepared for “worst case scenarios” and “stormy seas.”
According to Alex Wu of The Epoch Times, Xi was talking to officials who participated in the first National Security Commission meeting since the CCP’s 20th National Congress in 2022, per a report by state-run Xinhua.
As commission chairman, Xi declared they must deeply understand “the complexity and difficulty of the national security issues we now face have increased significantly.” Xi called on CCP officials to carry forward the “spirit of struggle” and “must adhere to bottom-line thinking and worst-case-scenario thinking, and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves, and even perilous, stormy seas.”