By Herman Tiu Laurel

 

Last May 21, 2025, the Philippine Star published as it regularly does another ignorant column article of Andrew Masigan who wrote, “… its president for life. Under Xi’s command, China has abandoned many of its free-market capitalist policies in favor of centralized control, even if it carried economic repercussions.”

            First of all, the five-year term of the president of the People’s Republic of China (PROC)  is elected regularly by the National People’s Congress (NPC) in what is a “consultative democracy” that has served the nation so well since its founding, achieving 91% governance satisfaction of its people in 2024 according to the Danish NGO Alliance of Democracies (AoD) survey outperforming the U.S. and European countries.

            Secondly, the PROC has never been a “free-market capitalist” society as Masigan claims. China, under the governance of the Communist Party of China (CPC), consistently declares and explains that it has a “socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics” or what some Western economists would call a “mixed economy” that balances individual economic freedom with social welfare and stability.

            In the latter part of his article, Masigan wrote that “Xi has also pursued global hegemony and has engaged in bad behavior in trade, diplomacy and grey zone tactics to achieve it.” Masigan, who is a new advisor to the genocide front organization MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) led by Israeli Defense Force intel colonel Yigal Carmon, is actually a talking head of the declining U.S. global hegemony and its genocidal front Israel.

            It is no surprising that Andrew Masigan has a protected status in the Philippine Star even if he is not read by any significant public as the Star is an instrument of the U.S. global hegemony through the control of MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. and of Manuel Pangilinan, co-chair of the U.S.-Philippine Society with former CIA boss John Negroponte. I have to keep pointing out all these connections to expose these truly nefarious disinformation channels.

            Masigan, like much of the Western media carping frequently about it, harps on the question of presidential succession in China’s political system. As I have explained above, the established system of succession through election by the National People’s Congress sets the process. It will continue to do so. There are critical junctures in history where continuity of leadership is crucial and the collective leadership acts accordingly.

            The West and its vassal states are in constant and active efforts to destabilize nations that rise, prosper and grow strong to lead the Global Majority of emerging economies towards a new era of global peace and harmony without the threat of U.S. hegemonism and warmongering hounding humanity. After the Ukraine War failed, the U.S. now prioritizes the Taiwan-Philippines proxy war project.

            Masigan attempts to paint a derogatory portrait of China’s leadership to try to depict an unstable arrangement and dysfunctional succession mechanism, oblivious to the clear and unmistakable vitality the political and economic system is showing, cultivating new leaders, young blood in politics and technology, who have been thrust into positions of leadership and are performing exceptionally well.

            The PROC’s collective leadership is superior to the individualistic presidential system of the U.S. with the public perception centered on public personalities while real power resides in the “Deep State” of hidden interests that is often defined by the name “military-industrial-congressional-financial oligarchy and donor-class complex.” Hence, the U.S. president is a pitifully conflicted figure and genuine democracy is an illusion for the people.

China’s collective and consultative leadership with the Communist Party of China maintains a “whole process democracy” guided by the mission of serving the people, with methodologies of thought and practice based on scientific socialism, with continuous feedback loop between experts and the grassroots. This has guided China to achieve historically unprecedented socio-economic prosperity and justice that China now shares with the Global Majority.

            What about Andrew Masigan, what are his associations? Writing for a news and media platform owned by an avaricious corporate finance transnational led by an amoral executive profiteering exorbitantly from privatized public utilities, and now a functionary of the genocidal U.S.-proxy nation called Israel as adviser of a genocidal Israeli Defense Force media cognitive warfare tentacle engaged in barbaric information warfare.

These are realities that the barbarian writing for the Philippine Star probably cannot comprehend nor understand. ###

   

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