Communism failed as an economic system, but it has always led to a tyrannical political regime.
RealClearWorld -- Senator Marco Rubio
The High Cost of Beijing’s Demands for Uniformity
Beijing’s goal of eliminating religion stems from a broader quest to impose ideological uniformity on China, and increasingly, the rest of the world as it interacts with China. As Xi Jinping is fond of saying, “the Party leads everything.” The CCP aims to maintain its monopoly over the ability to set standards on how people think or act. To achieve that, it must eliminate all significant expressions of difference: cultural, ethnic, religious, linguistic, political, artistic, and beyond.
Deviation from those standards is a challenge to the CCP’s authority -- the ultimate crime in communist China.
Politico
Chins’s Promise: A Free Market for Unfree People
It is perhaps the ultimate irony that Marxist collectivism — having been destroyed in Russia and the former Eastern bloc — would three decades later rear its head in America and Europe, thereby making the Beijing job of selling its ideology easier.
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China -- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This post WWII world order is now being challenged by the autocracies of China, Russia, and Iran and their proxies in North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela. What is telling is that China, Russia, and Iran have significant historical and Ideological conflicts, but these are superseded by their common bond of autocratic control of power. Their common desire is to replace the Western liberal tradition with a new type of world order and to remake the global balance of power.
