Xi visits Ma as if facing a major enemy, closing more than a hundred roads, reportedly bringing bulletproof car.

Against the backdrop of the US-China trade war, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, visited three Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia. Prior to his visit to Malaysia, local security measures were heightened. It was reported that Xi once again traveled with his bulletproof car.

According to the official schedule announced by the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping conducted a “state visit” to Vietnam from April 14th to 15th, followed by visits to Malaysia and Cambodia from April 15th to 18th.

The Malaysian news agency reported on Sunday (13th) that Xi Jinping would be in Malaysia from Tuesday (15th) to Thursday (17th). The police implemented phased road closures on 17 roads in Kuala Lumpur and deployed about 378 police officers for the mission. On the 14th, it was announced that a total of 136 roads and areas in the Klang Valley were blocked and controlled, including specific sections between the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 1 and the Hilton Hotel in Putrajaya, as well as sections between the Hilton Hotel in Putrajaya and the National Palace, and the hotel and the Prime Minister’s residence.

Due to Xi Jinping’s visit to Malaysia, local media such as the Malaysian News Agency began airing television programs produced by China Central Television (CCTV) promoting Xi Jinping and praising the Chinese Communist Party.

Malaysia is a member of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” and heavily relies on Chinese investments. However, the Chinese property developer Country Garden’s project in Johor, Malaysia, has been criticized for being left unfinished.

The plan for Xi’s visit to Malaysia was rumored before the trade war escalated. In February of this year, a pro-Communist Chinese media outlet reported that the Malaysian Prime Minister announced Xi Jinping’s visit in April, with a large business delegation, “with tens or even hundreds of people, bringing more business opportunities and trade cooperation to Malaysia.”

Analysts previously believed that amid the escalation of the trade war between China and the United States, Xi Jinping’s visit aimed to garner support from small Southeast Asian countries to unite against the US. Taiwan economic scholar Sun Guoxiang told Dajiyuan that the Malaysian Prime Minister’s original expectation of receiving grand gestures from China has now turned into seeking help from China. This change reflects China’s current international predicament of being on the defensive.

Xi Jinping’s visit to Malaysia is facing heightened security measures.

Malaysia’s Oriental Daily reported that police have deployed high-level anti-terrorism measures, even using a full-band radio jamming vehicle to escort Xi Jinping’s motorcade throughout the visit. Xi Jinping’s ride for this visit to Malaysia will be a Red Flag N701 sedan.

Public information shows that the N701 is made of special armored material, giving the car a high level of strength. It is reported that the car is capable of withstanding grenade attacks.

It is reported that before and after Xi’s visit to Malaysia, Chinese intelligence agencies have been heavily monitoring various locations in Kuala Lumpur.

Xi Jinping visited Hungary from May 5th to 10th in 2024. The pro-Communist Hungarian government made extensive preparations for Xi’s visit. Despite allowing Chinese police to patrol in the country, strict security measures almost shut down Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

According to reports from Taiwanese media, on the eve of the BRICS summit in August 2023, the South African police confirmed that Xi Jinping brought a delegation of up to 500 people to visit, booked two hotels during the meeting, and a month earlier, authorities sent a complete set of furnitures from China, from cups and bowls, beds, mattresses to carpets and even curtains, leaving no trace of South Africa in the room. “He (Xi Jinping) completely rebuilt a new presidential suite.”

In November 2018, Xi Jinping visited Papua New Guinea, and two domestically produced armored vehicles were flown from China to the country. In December of the same year, during his two-day visit to Portugal, Xi Jinping spent two million euros to book all the rooms at the Le Meridien Hotel and widened the hotel’s garage door for the armored vehicles brought by Xi Jinping to enter and exit.

Since taking office, Xi Jinping has always emphasized “security” and has often kept a low profile, which is related to his concerns about his safety and fears of coup attempts and assassinations. Some analysts believe that Xi Jinping shares a common trait with Mao Zedong: while outwardly advocating atheism, they both have a certain belief in and fear of the traditional culture with spiritual elements.

Sources have said that Xi Jinping is very concerned because several ancient Chinese prophecies predict palace coups and assassinations happening to him during his time in office, ultimately leading to his death.

The extensive road closures in Malaysia for Xi Jinping’s visit have sparked dissatisfaction among local netizens. Malaysian netizens criticized, saying, “Many foreign dignitaries visit Malaysia without causing such inconvenience and expenses.”

Contrary to the Central Communist Party media’s recent promotion of Xi Jinping leading the implementation of the “Eight-point Regulation” he issued when he first came to power, to “travel light and keep things simple,” Xi tends to make elaborate arrangements for his travels every time.

In an article on Dajiyuan, it was stated that during Xi’s inspection in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Guiyang City of Guizhou from March 17th to 18th, he could be seen leading numerous violations of the “Eight-point Regulation.” For instance, local officials assigned nearly a thousand public security, market supervision, tax, and armed police personnel, dressed in plain clothes, from twelve counties and cities in Qiandongnan Prefecture to rehearse for a week in order to play “ordinary citizens” during Xi’s visit. To please Xi Jinping, local officials even forcibly relocated the indigenous people of Zhaoxing Dong Village and had the temporarily chosen crowd actors stay in local hotels to “familiarize themselves with the environment.”

Furthermore, during Xi’s inspection, not only were the roads widened and resurfaced with granite sand along the way, but strict security measures were also put in place from the airport to the Dong village, creating a large-scale “martial law-like” reception mode.

The author expressed that it is the ultimate irony that the party leader demands others to adhere to the “Eight-point Regulation” while he himself sets an example of breaching those rules, being inconsistent in words and actions.