Is Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping on his way out?

Over the past few months, unprecedented developments point to the potential, and potentially imminent, fall of China’s “Chairman of Everything” Xi Jinping.Chinese Communist Party elders — including Hu Jintao, Xi’s immediate predecessor, whom Xi humiliated at the 20th Party Congress in 2022 — are now running things behind the scenes.

Xi is in poor health and likely to retire at the CCP Plenary Session this August or take a purely ceremonial position.Xi’s downfall has been rumored before.But never have we seen the recent purges (and mysterious deaths) of dozens of People’s Liberation Army generals loyal to Xi; all replaced by non-Xi loyalists.Zhang Youxia, with whom Xi had a major falling out after helping Xi secure an unprecedented third five-year term, is now the de facto leader of the PLA.Also, the “un-naming” of Xi’s father’s mausoleum last month was unprecedented.

The mausoleum, which Xi has built to honor his late father, was larger than the mausoleums of either Mao’s or Deng’s.Meanwhile, Xi’s personal protective detail has recently been halved.What world leader cuts his own security? There was no explanation for Xi’s disappearance for almost two weeks in late May and early June while foreign dignitaries were hosted in Beijing by other CCP Leaders.

Xi has also been conspicuously missing from the pages of the People’s Daily, the CCP organ that until recently ran fawning front-page stories on Xi daily.Xi reappeared to host Belarus dictator/Russian puppet Alexander Lukashenko in early June.

Xi looked tired, uninterested — even defeated. The meeting location was a low-key family-style area of the CCP leaders’ compound (Zhongnanhai) in Beijing that had never before hosted a state visit.Stripped of the pomp and circumstance that used to accompany every Xi gathering, the entire entourage was a mere handful.

None of Xi’s translators or senior aides were present.Compare that to the state visits recently hosted by other CCP l...