BEIJING (Reuters) – An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation, people familiar with the paper told Reuters.
The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping, concluded that global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the sources said.
As a result, Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic and needs to be prepared in a worst-case scenario for armed confrontation between the two global powers, according to people familiar with the report’s content, who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter.
The report was drawn up by the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a think tank affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, China’s top intelligence body.
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The Ministry of State Security told Chinese leaders that they need to prepare for armed confrontation between the United States and China. Major Reuters scoop — and one published without a byline, an indication of just how sensitive the information is. https://t.co/X3Ve6TEa55
— Isaac Stone Fish (@isaacstonefish) May 4, 2020
Asked when on the road for three years of book talks what I feared most from the "death of expertise", and especially with its intersection with the dumbest man ever to be president, I said: "War, pandemic, depression."
Looks like we could be going 3 for 3. https://t.co/DrhGSKdNKw
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