Posted on 04/10/2025 9:35:42 AM PDT by DFG
China’s increasingly shrill and desperate efforts to prove itself tough and fearless against President Donald Trump’s tariffs hit a new low on Thursday, when Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning decided to post old footage of Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party – and the worst mass murderer in history.
Mao Ning’s tone-deaf decision to post 72-year-old footage of Mao declaring his determination to “fight” until we “completely triumph” against President Eisenhower illustrates how badly the Communist elite has sunk into the revisionist history pushed by the ruling Party.
No sane person on Earth, outside of the Communist elite, thinks Mao is an admirable model of leadership. Germany might as well have run some old footage of Hitler to declare its opposition to Trump’s tariffs.
Of course, Chinese Communist apparatchiks are not taught to be ashamed of Mao’s mountain of corpses, or his economic policies, which inadvertently starved almost as many people as Mao killed on purpose.
Mao’s deadly “Great Leap Forward” began about five years after he gave the speech posted by Mao Ning. The Chinese leader established a system of communal agriculture and rigid ideological conformity that comprehensively failed to feed the swelling postwar Chinese population.
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