I've posted before the insights of Chi Wang, president of the US-China Policy Foundation. He strikes me as a thoughtful and fair-minded commentator.
In the article below (print version headline: "A new narrative") he makes a point I've made before: that China — its regime, led by bully-boy Xi Jinping (XJP) — is busy deliberately forgetting Deng Xiaoping, the famously diminutive chain-smoking architect of modern China.
This is particularly awful and almost unforgivable, at the 40-year anniversary of Deng's Open Door policy. I was there in Beijing when Deng announced the Open Door Policy in 1978 — as the "reform and opening" policy. 改革开放 (gaige kaifang). It was that policy and others that quickly followed, the "four modernisations", the "Special Economic Zones", Deng's practical advice "it doesn't matter if a cat is white or black as long as it catches mice", that turned China into the land of wealth and opportunity it is today.
But XJP is making Deng a “forgotten person”.
I can confirm that from my visits to China. Not just forgetting Deng, but anything else not comfortable to the regime — the Hundred Flowers campaign (百花运动 Baihua Yundong), the Great Leap Forward (大跃进, Dayue Jin ) the depredations of the Cultural Revolution, the Gang of Four (四人帮 Siren bang), Tiananmen protests, June the Fourth (六四，Liu si) …all down the memory hole.
XJP has given China the opposite of Alzheimer's; it remembers only the immediate past and forgets the long past — except of course when it helps the regime, so it remembers the depredations of the horrid colonialists and their Opium Wars. After all, Victimhood is an art form to the regime.
XJP has given China the opposite of Alzheimer's; it remembers only the immediate past and forgets the long past — except of course when it helps the regime, so it remembers the depredations of the horrid colonialists and their Opium Wars. After all, Victimhood is an art form to the regime.
And in place of remembering Deng Xiaoping , the architect of China's modernisation?
Sigh....it's just too terrible.... it's Xi Zhongxun, the bland father of XJP, and the bland "Thoughts" of bully-boy dictator Xi Jinping himself.
Sigh....it's just too terrible.... it's Xi Zhongxun, the bland father of XJP, and the bland "Thoughts" of bully-boy dictator Xi Jinping himself.
What a shame.
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Click below for Chi Wang's thoughts on this travesty.
Xi's China is ignoring the US' role in its rise to glory
https://sc.mp/a9i5u
https://sc.mp/a9i5u
