George Soros talks about China
George Soros says leadership of China’s Xi threatened by omicron and real-estate crisis
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s position is at risk, billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros has claimed.
Speaking via teleconference on a panel with the Hoover Institution on Monday, Soros argued that the omicron Covid-19 variant “threatens to be Xi Jinping’s undoing” as the virus is “no longer under control” in China.
The Chinese Communist Party will decide at its National Party Congress this year whether to give Xi a third term in office. But Soros argued Xi’s attempts to impose “total control”…
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