Xi Jinping split a message of sympathy to Donald Trump, the day after his positive Covid test, wishing
“a rapid recovery”
to this president who promises to make
“China pay”
for the ravages of the pandemic.
But no one knows the core of the thoughts of the most authoritarian Chinese leader since Mao.
The man keeps his enigmatic Eastern Sphinx smile, caulked behind the thick walls of Zhongnanhai, the residential complex of senior Communist Party leaders, safe from the coronavirus.
Always quick to denounce
Western
"interference"
in
"its internal affairs"
, from Hong Kong, to Xinjiang via Taiwan, the second world power is careful not to show its preference, on the eve of the American presidential election.
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This silence camouflages the strategic debates within a regime adept at secrecy, facing two candidates who support a hard line against China, but who each offer opportunities for the reborn giant.
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