Rudd's concept of Xi being a Marxist Nationalist somehow reminds me of how visitors to Yanan came back saying that Mao and the CCP weren't really communists. In fact they were Chinese nationalists minus KMT corruption. They liked Americans and Americans could work with them. It is now pretty clear that that was all a Potemkin show.
Even Chiang Kai-shek seemed to think that he needed some kind of thought or -ism to make hinself the great leader. It seems that the creation of [Leader] Thought is a prerequisite for a full blown cult of personality. This makes more sense when we remember that Xi or Mao thought is not just bookshops filled with tomes on the subject. Party cadres have to study this stuff intensively until they internalize it. Other members of society need to be familiar enough with it so that they can parrot it. Children in schools have to take classes in it. I wonder when Xi Jinping thought gets integrated into the Hong Kong curriculum.
I don't know how much it comes across, but my reading of "The Political Thought of Xi Jinping" suggests me that it's in the nature of the recursiveness of Xi thought that inevitably it's the enabler of nationalism. Xi will deliver the Chinese dream, Xi facilitates national pride, of course his thought will be taught in HK schools ...
I've got this suggestion for you, Bill. Don't read ChinaDiction. You will never come around and like anything it has to say. Best of luck with your endeavors! Chris.
Rudd's concept of Xi being a Marxist Nationalist somehow reminds me of how visitors to Yanan came back saying that Mao and the CCP weren't really communists. In fact they were Chinese nationalists minus KMT corruption. They liked Americans and Americans could work with them. It is now pretty clear that that was all a Potemkin show.
Even Chiang Kai-shek seemed to think that he needed some kind of thought or -ism to make hinself the great leader. It seems that the creation of [Leader] Thought is a prerequisite for a full blown cult of personality. This makes more sense when we remember that Xi or Mao thought is not just bookshops filled with tomes on the subject. Party cadres have to study this stuff intensively until they internalize it. Other members of society need to be familiar enough with it so that they can parrot it. Children in schools have to take classes in it. I wonder when Xi Jinping thought gets integrated into the Hong Kong curriculum.
I don't know how much it comes across, but my reading of "The Political Thought of Xi Jinping" suggests me that it's in the nature of the recursiveness of Xi thought that inevitably it's the enabler of nationalism. Xi will deliver the Chinese dream, Xi facilitates national pride, of course his thought will be taught in HK schools ...
The answer is No
I've got this suggestion for you, Bill. Don't read ChinaDiction. You will never come around and like anything it has to say. Best of luck with your endeavors! Chris.
I will gleefully take your advice because disinformation is as common as chicken manure.