![]() It isn’t always clear to Western minds whether they actually believe the rhetoric or simply use it to keep the peasantry in line. For the Chinese, this blends with the country’s own long history. Grand dreams of world domination are part and parcel of communist ideologies, going all the way back to Karl Marx. These are not merely words for the consumption of the masses. Xi’s vision of the Chinese Communist Party controlling the state and eventually influencing and even controlling the rest of the world is clear. Unfortunately, the hawks are ascendant, embodied most clearly in Xi Jinping. The strategy has been well documented in Chinese literature, published and sanctioned by organizations of the People’s Liberation Army, for well over 50 years.Īnd just as we have hawks and moderates on China within the US, there are hawks and moderates within China about how to engage the West. They want to do this by 2049, the centennial of China’s Communist revolution. In The Hundred-Year Marathon, Michael Pillsbury marshals a lot of evidence showing the Chinese government has a detailed strategy to overtake the US as the world’s dominant power. So here we are, our economy now hardwired with an autocratic regime that has no interest in becoming like us. Xi calls it “Socialism with a Chinese character.” It appears to be a dynamic capitalistic market, but is also a totalitarian, top-down structure with rigid rules and social restrictions. ![]() Today’s Chinese communists are nowhere near Mao’s kind of communism. We perceived a bigger change than there actually was. Leaders in Beijing may have admired our accomplishments, but not enough to abandon Communism. Obviously, our ways were best.īut that wasn’t obvious to people elsewhere, most notably China. Our ideas, freedom, and technology had won both World War II and the Cold War that followed it. We in the Western world thought (somewhat arrogantly, in hindsight) everyone else wanted to be like us. Thus came the incredible extension of globalization. ![]() American businesses shifted production to lower-cost countries. The US, as sole superpower, saw opportunities everywhere. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union collapsed and the internet was born.
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