Chinese President Xi Jinping made a 100th anniversary speech on July 1 that set a new, more strident tone at home and abroad. Xi demanded loyalty, called for more militarism, threatened to return to a more Marxist economic system, threatened China’s neighbors, and called for the advancement of China’s totalitarian system around the world.
In essence, China is becoming as much an existential threat as the USSR, perhaps moreso because our country is so entangled with them economically and because our ruling class essentially want to be China, albeit with the corporate monopolies using the state and not the other way around.
Missing from the festivities, as if celebrating totalitarian wokeness ala Mao Zedong is even possible, was the military parade. This may be a sign of growing disconent in the military ranks as, while being missing, the PLA was urged to show loyalty and devotion, which many mean this is a problem.
At home, Xi has been burnishing his image as a successor to Mao and has begun rolling back China’s liberalization of the economy and of any semblance of freedom. Arrests and a social credit system that suppresses dissent are all part of the Chinese system or absolute control. Many Americans of the woke communist variety can only envy Xi.
By this speech, Xi, in his effort to gain the support of the 95 million Party members who lord it over the rest of society, is signaling a fresh and open aggressiveness against internal and foreign foes on par with the worse days of the USSR.
Stocks in China and Hong Kong tumbled as news of the extreme language of the speech got out. Xi warned that anyone who tries to bully China “will face broken heads and bloodshed.”
It is often forgotten that China’s system is totalitarian Marxism. His own words confirm this view:
We must continue to adapt Marxism to the Chinese context. Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology upon which our Party and country are founded; it is the very soul of our Party and the banner under which it strives. The Communist Party of China upholds the basic tenets of Marxism and the principle of seeking truth from facts. Based on China’s realities, we have developed keen insights into the trends of the day, seized the initiative in history, and made painstaking explorations.
We have thus been able to keep adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of our times, and to guide the Chinese people in advancing our great social revolution. At the fundamental level, the capability of our Party and the strengths of socialism with Chinese characteristics are attributable to the fact that Marxism works.
Of course there is nothing factual about Marxism and Marxism doesn’t work. China’s success is almost entirely to the credit of Western sycophants who traded short-term material gain for economic arrangements that benefited China at the expense of the American people. The “new model” for Marxism is not to just use the state but to proactively control and use the corporation.
China’s totalitarian vision with the triple threat of woke authoritarian platforms and their social credit system, the corporate and financial sector monopolism that serves the Party, and a ruthless state that labels dissent “domestic terrorism”, is envied by America’s ruling class.
But China is also announcing by this speech a drive for global empire, an international neocomm order controlled by Beijing, although puppets in “allied states” may be given autonomy. China seeks world domination, of that there cannot be any mistake.
China is returning to a more brutal totalitarianism and is moving outward toward a new communist imperialism aimed straight at the United States of America.
