American billionaire and founder of the Open Society Foundation George Soros in his lecture for Stanford University called on the international community to urge China to change its political regime, the businessman said on Twitter.

Soros also said that CCP Secretary General Xi Jinping should step down as head of the Chinese state. “This would remove the greatest threat that open societies face today and they should do everything within their power to encourage China to move in the desired direction,” the billionaire declared.

According to Soros, China has now become "world’s most powerful authoritarian state in the world." He said that Xi Jinping, unlike China's former leader Deng Xiaoping (who brought market reforms to the country), really believes in communism.

Thus, according to Soros, the current Chinese president considers dictators Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin his idols. The billionaire also claimed that China, “like Germany in 1936,” will “attempt to use the spectacle” of the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games “to score a propaganda victory for its system of strict controls.”