China’s virus instability, and the coming succession disarray. Arthur Waldron: @PennSAS, #China

Published: March 19, 2020, 2:54 a.m.

Image:  The Sovereign's Throne in the House of Lords (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords) , from which the speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_from_the_throne) is delivered at the State Opening of Parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Opening_of_Parliament) .  Permissions: see below. ("In the partially elective system of tanistry, the heir or tanist was elected from the qualified males of the royal family.") Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania; in re: Stability of the PRC and what comes afterward between US and PRC?  Origins of the virus; requirement of stability in China for the commerce to continue.   Xi early said he was personally in charge of solving the virus matter.  The US is the meal ticket for China; how does it benefit China to damage the US?  In China, is the younger generation ready for a major change in the Communist party?  The artists and academics are miles ahead of the party.  Xi does not want to have a successor being groomed, and ensured that that would not happen. Ergo, there’s no clear succession path and the infighting will probably be intense. In Chinese classics, the question of the root of succession: since ancient times, when the emperor is first proclaimed, he must immediately name a successor. Xi emphatically has not done this. .. Permissions: Sovereign's Throne in the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster Date | 9 September 2011, 14:46:34 Source | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_Lords_2011.jpg Author | UK government.   This file has been extracted from another file:  House of Lords 2011.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_Lords_2011.jpg) | This file is licensed under the United Kingdom Open Government Licence v3.0 (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) (OGL v.3). You are free to: copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; adapt the Information; exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application. You must, where you do any of the above: acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, you must use the following:Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This licence does NOT cover: personal data in the Information;Information that has not been accessed by way of publication or disclosure under information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider;departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset;military insignia;third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design rights; andidentity documents such as the British Passport.Consult this guide (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) for full details.Note: Since 2010, almost all information owned by the UK Crown is offered for use and re-use under the Open Government Licence by authority of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office